Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-10-28 Oct 28, 2008Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.~ Paul ValéryFreedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.~ Alan Dean FosterWhen it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Oct 27, 2008Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. MenckenDemocracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.~ James BovardFreedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only -- no matter how big its membership may be -- is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.~ Rosa Luxemburg Oct 24, 2008In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.~ Keith BradsherA banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.~ Mark TwainThe bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.~ William Paterson Oct 23, 2008... the privilege of creating and issuing money... is the government's greatest creative opportunity... [saving] the taxpayers immense sums of money...~ Abraham LincolnIf 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. EdisonA great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.~ Woodrow Wilson Oct 22, 2008No State shall... coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts...~ United States Constitution...first ascertain exactly the position of the various capitalists, then control them, influence them by restricting or enlarging, facilitating or hindering their credits, and finally they can entirely determine their fate.~ Vladimir Ilyich LeninWe have what is known as the Federal Reserve Bank System. That system is not owned by the Government. Many people think that it is because it says “Federal Reserve.” It belongs to private banks, private corporations. So we have farmed out to the Federal Reserve Banking System that which is owned exclusively, wholly, one hundred percent to the private banks—we have farmed out to them the privilege of issuing the Government’s money!~ Wright Patman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print