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2009 March 27
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"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." |
"A man must pay the fiddler.
In my case it so happened that
a whole symphony orchestra
often had to be subsidized." |
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation,
the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." |
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2009 March 26
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"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent." |
"The issue which has swept down the centuries
and which will have to be fought sooner or later
is the people versus the banks." |
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." |
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2009 March 25
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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today." |
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2009 March 24
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." |
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." |
"The common man is the sovereign consumer
whose buying or abstention from buying
ultimately determines what should be produced
and in what quantity and quality." |
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2009 March 23
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." |
"Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough." |
"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity.
The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery." |
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