Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-02-23 Feb 23, 2009American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. …The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.~ Dr. Ron PaulWhen men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonExtreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.~ Ronald Reagan Feb 20, 2009As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.~ Alan GreenspanThe actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks. As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money.~ Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoBecause of 'fractional' reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times, by making loans and investments.~ Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkWithout the confidence factor, many believe a paper money system is liable to collapse eventually.~ Federal Reserve Bank of PhiladelphiaA welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry BrowneIt is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.~ Henry FordThree groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.~ Richard Armey Feb 19, 2009The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.~ Bill BonnerEveryone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic BastiatThat this House considers that the continued issue of all the means of exchange -- be they coin, bank-notes or credit, largely passed on by cheques -- by private firms as an interest-bearing debt against the public should cease forthwith; that the Sovereign power and duty of issuing money in all forms should be returned to the Crown, then to be put into circulation free of all debt and interest obligations...~ Captain Henry Kerby Feb 18, 2009When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.~ Ayn RandFor you see, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.~ Benjamin DisraeliThe more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.~ Bertrand de Jouvenel Feb 17, 2009You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.~ William BoetckerI cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.~ James MadisonThe real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.~ Plutarch Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print