Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-10-20 Oct 20, 2008I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread.~ Thomas JeffersonI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.~ Thomas JeffersonThe system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction... I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 17, 2008Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking...are the principles that must guide our steps.~ Hans F. SennholzWe have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.~ Horace GreeleyIf, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.~ John Maynard Keynes Oct 16, 2008Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power.~ Benito MussoliniGovernment price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.~ Calvin Coolidge Oct 15, 2008Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.~ Bo DiddleyNobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.~ Adam SmithFor the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.~ Carroll QuigleyA government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.~ George Bernard Shaw Oct 14, 2008Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.~ Ludwig von MisesDo we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ...as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified, bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural strengths and abilities?~ Sergei HoffThe state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.~ Frederic Bastiat Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print