Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-10-21 Oct 21, 2008Historically, the United States has been a hard money country. Only [since 1913] has the United States operated on a fiat money system. During this period, paper money has depreciated over 87%. During the preceding 140 year period, the hard currency of the United States had actually maintained its value. Wholesale prices in 1913... were the same as in 1787.~ Kenneth GerbinoSome people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.~ Louis McFaddenThat is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.~ Marriner Stoddard Eccles 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print