Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect
savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby
secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending
is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the
way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property
rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the
statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."

~ Alan Greenspan  

"Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England... At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences... I felt that sooner or later the market had to break."

~ Bernard Baruch  

"Historically, the United States has been a hard money country.
Only [since 1913] has the United States operated on a fiat money system.
During this period, paper money has depreciated over 87%.
During the preceding 140 year period, the hard currency
of the United States had actually maintained its value.
Wholesale prices in 1913... were the same as in 1787."

~ Kenneth Gerbino  

"The president of the American Bar Association begins a nationwide tour,
giving speeches on the dangers of Treaty Law:
'The doctrine that the treaty power is unlimited and omnipotent and may
be used to OVERRIDE the Constitution and the Bill of Rights... is a
doctrine of recent origin and largely derived from Missouri v. Holland.'"

~ Frank E. Holman  

"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are
simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any
of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction,
if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace."

~ William Carr  

"[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom."

~ John Quincy Adams  

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

~ George Washington  

"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it we'd be at the mercy of monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the world…by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and everywhere."

~ Sheldon Richman  

"The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended
ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators
profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own.
On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.'...
Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or
bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made,
on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us,
have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty
made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely
for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat
or attack against the U.S. itself.
Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy."

~ Colin Gray  

~ James Madison  

"Government can do something for the people only
in proportion as it can do something to the people."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States."

~ US Agency for International Development