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2013 August 02
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"Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possible the incurring of any new debt." |
"We make money the old fashioned way. We print it." |
"No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order,
stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death,
I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs
(which alas! is all too inadequate)." |
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2013 August 01
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"Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality — you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possible the incurring of any new debt." |
"We make money the old fashioned way. We print it." |
"No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order,
stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death,
I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs
(which alas! is all too inadequate)." |
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2013 July 31
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"Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good." |
"With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered." |
"Bankers have no right to establish a customary law among themselves, at the expence of other men." |
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2013 July 30
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"Spent an hour in the beginning of the evening at Major Gardiner's, where it was thought that the design of Christianity was not to make men good riddle-solvers, or good mystery-mongers, but good men, good magistrates, and good subjects, good husbands and good wives, good parents and good children, good masters and good servants. The following questions may be answered some time or other, namely, — Where do we find a precept in the Gospel requiring Ecclesiastical Synods? Convocations? Councils? Decrees? Creeds? Confessions? Oaths? Subscriptions? and whole cart-loads of other trumpery that we find religion incumbered with in these days?" |
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"Practical religion consists in doing good:
and the only way of serving God
is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.
All preaching that has not this for its object
is nonsense and hypocrisy." |
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2013 July 29
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"The pages of history shine on instances of the jury's exercise of it's prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge." |
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