Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-01-11 Jan 11, 2022Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.~ Napoleon BonaparteThe American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.~ Norman ThomasThe moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie -- a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days -- but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.~ Hannah Arendt Jan 10, 2022A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.~ Alexander HamiltonCorruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)~ Cornelius TacitusWe now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.~ Donald Alexander Jan 7, 2022Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.~ Walter GoodmanA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynBy a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.~ John Maynard Keynes Jan 6, 2022You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.~ Andrew JacksonEither the application for renewal of the charter (for the First Bank of the United States) is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.~ Baron Nathan Mayer RothschildMost Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside of the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.~ Barry Goldwater Jan 5, 2022I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.~ Ashleigh BrilliantInflation is taxation without representation.~ Milton FriedmanThat 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print