Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash."

~ Bo Diddley  

"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

~ Proverbs  

"A billion here, a billion there,
sooner or later it adds up to real money."

~ Everett Dirksen  

"Governments last as long
as the undertaxed can defend themselves
against the overtaxed."

~ Bernard Berenson  

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we’d all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog."

~ Charley Reese  

"When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper which should have been gold, are a token of honor -- your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The banks do create money. They have been doing it for a long time, but they didn't realise it, and they did not admit it. Very few did. You will find it in all sorts of documents, financial textbooks, etc. But in the intervening years, and we must be perfectly frank about these things, there has been a development of thought, until today I doubt very much whether you would get many prominent bankers to attempt to deny that banks create it."

~ H. W. White  

"...the concentration of capital and the growth of their turnover
is radically challenging the significance of the banks. Scattered
capitalists are transformed into a single collective capitalist. When
carrying the current accounts of a few capitalists, the banks, as it
were, transact a purely technical and exclusively auxiliary operation.
When, however, these operations grow to enormous dimensions
we find that a handful of monopolists control all the operations,
both commercial and industrial, of capitalist society.
They can, by means of their banking connections."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money.
It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion
to the demands of trade and industry to make the products
pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner,
creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its
purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay no one."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity. The financing of all public enterprise, and the conduct of the treasury will become matters of practical administration. Money will cease to be master and will then become servant of humanity."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilisation."

~ Otto von Bismarck  

"No State shall... coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts..."

~ United States Constitution  

~ Friedrich August von Hayek

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
...Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."

~ John Maynard Keynes