Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-08-03 Aug 2, 2013Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possible the incurring of any new debt.~ Alexander HamiltonWe make money the old fashioned way. We print it.~ Art RolnickNo legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).~ Frederic Bastiat Aug 1, 2013Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possible the incurring of any new debt.~ Alexander HamiltonWe make money the old fashioned way. We print it.~ Art RolnickNo legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).~ Frederic Bastiat Jul 31, 2013Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good.~ Alexander DieliusWith regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.~ James MadisonBankers have no right to establish a customary law among themselves, at the expence of other men.~ Sir Michael Foster Jul 30, 2013Spent an hour in the beginning of the evening at Major Gardiner's, where it was thought that the design of Christianity was not to make men good riddle-solvers, or good mystery-mongers, but good men, good magistrates, and good subjects, good husbands and good wives, good parents and good children, good masters and good servants. The following questions may be answered some time or other, namely, — Where do we find a precept in the Gospel requiring Ecclesiastical Synods? Convocations? Councils? Decrees? Creeds? Confessions? Oaths? Subscriptions? and whole cart-loads of other trumpery that we find religion incumbered with in these days?~ John AdamsIf the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism.~ Thomas JeffersonPractical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.~ Thomas Paine Jul 29, 2013No man shall twice be sentenced by Civil Justice for one and the same crime, offense, or trespass.~ Nathaniel WardThe pages of history shine on instances of the jury's exercise of it's prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge.~ U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ColumbiaIt is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print