Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-09-24 Sep 24, 2015I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.~ James MadisonWe have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence.~ John W. RaperSo low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.~ William Richardson Davie Sep 23, 2015The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ... Roosevelt's policies were very destructive. Roosevelt's policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been.~ Milton FriedmanAre you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?~ Ronald ReaganDon't let yesterday use up too much of today.~ Will Rogers Sep 22, 2015It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.~ AesopAllow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality.~ Alexander HamiltonFascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power.~ Benito Mussolini Sep 21, 2015It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise.~ Alexander HamiltonHamilton's whole monetary policy is based on unconstitutional grounds and unsound reasoning, and fraudulent statements. His policies were fought through the whole public career of Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Randolph and many another truly great lovers of Republican Government. His policies have proved to be more destructive of our independent and democratic form of government than the old subjugation of the Colonies by Great Britain. The deliberations in Congress over Hamilton's Bank Bill, and the opinions of members of The Cabinet show the intensity of feeling between the private money interests and those supporting the Constitution. History records that the “money changers” have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.~ Olive Cushing Dwinell Sep 18, 2015A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.~ Lysander SpoonerSomeone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.~ Robert HemphillNo scheme which has ever been devised by them has ever made a collapsed boom go up again.~ William Graham Sumner Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print