If you ever feel like an ignorant pussy, listen to a NYT reporter. I guarantee you will never feel wiser and manlier by comparison.

"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government." — F.A. Hayek, “The Denationalisation of Money” (1976)

"Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." — Friedrich A. Hayek. The Road to Serfdom, 1944.

“Government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. It is by no means merely ‘advice’; it is an order backed up by threats.” — Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action (1949)