There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometim… - Milton Friedman

Had the Federal Reserve System never been established, and had a similar series of runs started, there is little doubt that the same measures would have been taken as in 1907 — a restriction of payments.

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." — Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 479 (1928)

Se colocarmos o Estado para administrar o Deserto do Saara, em 5 anos faltará areia.