Monday, September 29, 2008
credit
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world, 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, after signing the Fed Reserve Act in 1913
Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Fed Reserve Act in 1913
Sunday, September 28, 2008
history
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Thursday, September 25, 2008
capitalism
Capitalism will always survive in the United States as long as the government is willing to use socialism to bail it out.
Nathra Nader, Ralph Nader's father
Nathra Nader, Ralph Nader's father
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
war
Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Monday, September 22, 2008
banks
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Thomas Jefferson
This is a suspected fake quote.
Thomas Jefferson
This is a suspected fake quote.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
insanity
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
taxes
Saturday, September 20, 2008
democracy
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H L Mencken
H L Mencken
Friday, September 19, 2008
conscience
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
ideas
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Aristotle
law
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849
Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849
rules
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
banks
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.
Andrew Jackson, 1836, on closing the Second Bank of the US.
Andrew Jackson, 1836, on closing the Second Bank of the US.
Monday, September 15, 2008
history
The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage.
Alexander Tyler circa 1787 re the fall of the Athenian Republic
Alexander Tyler circa 1787 re the fall of the Athenian Republic
Saturday, September 13, 2008
war
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
truth
Men occasionally stumble across the truth. But most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Monday, September 08, 2008
derivatives
Derivatives are weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that while now latent, are potentially lethal.
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
war
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they kill, there would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman
Saturday, September 06, 2008
debt
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
George Washington
George Washington
Friday, September 05, 2008
military-industrial complex
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
ignorance
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin
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