“It is well enough that the 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 Ford
"To endeavour artificially to encrease such a credit, can never be the interest of any trading nation; but must lay them under disadvantages, by encreasing money beyond its natural proportion to labour and commodities, and thereby heightening their price to the merchant manufacturer." - David Hume
"As to the assumed authority of any assembly in making paper money, or paper of any kind, a legal tender, or in other language, a compulsive payment, it is a most presumptious attempt at arbitrary power. There can be no such power in a republican government: the people have no freedom - and property no security - where this practice can be acted." - Thomas Paine
"Money, per se, cannot be consumed and cannot be used directly as a producers' good in the productive process. Money per se is therefore unproductive; it is dead stock and produces nothing." - Murray Rothbard
"I doubt whether it has ever done any good except to the rulers and their favorites." - F.A. Hayek (about central banking)
"The Federal Reserve System must be challenged. Ultimately, it needs to be eliminated. The government cannot and should not be trusted with a monopoly on money. No single institution in society should have power this immense. In fact, I believe that freedom itself is at stake in this struggle." - Ron Paul
"As there can be no causeless wealth, so can there be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. To love is to value. The man who tells you that it is possible to value without values, to love those whom you appraise as worthless, is the man who tells you that it is possible to grow rich by consuming without producing and that paper money is as valuable as gold." - Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Woodrow Wilson (1919)
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary." - Ludwig von Mises
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
"So far as the Bank issues notes, which are not covered by the metal reserves in its vaults, it creates symbols of value, that form not only currency, but also additional, even if fictitious, capital for it to the nominal amount of these unprotected notes. And this additional capital yields an additional profit for it." - Karl Marx
"If you have to convince a group of people who are not directly dependent on a solution of a problem, you will never succeed." - Ludwig von Mises
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric [and power, in the case you speak of], of their lives." - Leo Tolstoy
“Comman man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as “every decent fellow must behave,” he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interest.” - Ludwig von Mises (Human Action)
"Observe the functioning of the market system … and you will discover in it … the finger of God." - Ludwig von Mises (Human Action)
"Do not say that you're afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life." - Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
"Ridicule is the tribute mediocrity pays to the genius." - Oscar Wilde
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The advertisement is the most thruthful part of a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous." - Tacitus |
