Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-04-18 Apr 18, 2007Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.~ George WashingtonThe government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.~ Abraham LincolnThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.~ James A. Garfield Apr 17, 2007A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.~ Thomas JeffersonI think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.~ Thomas JeffersonThe mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.~ Thomas Jefferson Apr 16, 2007The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.~ Edwin FeulnerWhen a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.~ H. L. MenckenHow is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual?~ Will Rogers Apr 13, 2007It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.~ Benjamin FranklinThere ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.~ Davy CrockettI know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Apr 12, 2007From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.~ Karl MarxThere is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.~ Christopher Darlington MorleyHere is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print