"By calling in our gold coins in 1933 and our silver in the 1960's, real value was taken from citizens and counterfeit money was issued in its place, just as in ancient Rome. The government made a 100% profit on the transaction, which is nothing more than a sophisticated form of embezzlement. The purpose of downgrading gold can be seen to have been a deliberately immoral attempt to inflate, knowing it would be a secret tax levied on the public. No state of bank has ever had the right to print unlimed money and resisted the temptation to abuse that right. .. Freedom cannot exist for long in the absence of a sound currency. " --James Dines 1975