“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government. That is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government. All we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.”

F.A. Hayek, 1984

Source: Interview with Hayek by James U. Blanchard III, published in the Cato Policy Report (May/June 1984)