Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-04-28 Apr 27, 2001If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.~ Thomas A. Edison Apr 26, 2001The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom have been unwilling to make the hard choices or to explain to the American people that there is no such thing as a free lunch.~ Warren Rudman Apr 25, 2001All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.~ Adolf Hitler Apr 24, 2001In 1950, the average family of four paid 2% of its earnings to federal taxes. Today it pays 24%.~ William R. Mattox, Jr.A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.~ John Barrymore Apr 23, 2001When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...~ Civil Servants' Year Book Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print