Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-02-02 Feb 2, 2018If the legislature clearly misinterprets a constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right.~ Amos v. MosleyEconomic necessity cannot justify a disregard of cardinal constitutional guarantee.~ Riley v. CarterIf all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.~ Robert Hemphill Feb 1, 2018A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.~ Bertrand de JouvenelOnly a debt-backed system of paper money could finance the great wars, the social improvements and the fevered dreams of the 20th century.~ Brian MaherThose who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom Satan has prostrated by his touch does rise. That is because they say, trading is only like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury. To whomsoever then the admonition has come from his Lord, then he desists, he shall have what is already passed, and his affairs are in the hands of Allah; and whoever returns to it - these are the inmates of the fire; they shall abide in it..." ~ Qur'an Jan 31, 2018Take no usury of him, or increase... thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury.~ The Holy BibleIf thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.~ The Holy BibleUnto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: That the Lord thy God bless thee.~ The Holy Bible Jan 30, 2018When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty.~ Benjamin FranklinWith the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.~ Friedrich August von HayekA power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.~ John C. Calhoun Jan 29, 2018Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?~ Franklin D. RooseveltAn individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.~ Sun Yat-senThe maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print