2021 May 07
"Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a
compromise between a fad and a vested interest."
"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 legal tender quality [of money]
is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty."
2021 May 06
"I have no sympathy for the narrow, selfish notion of economy which assumes that every crumb of bread which goes into the mouth of one class is so much taken from the mouths of another class."
"Gold is the money of kings;
silver is the money of gentlemen;
barter is the money of peasants;
but debt is the money of slaves."
2021 May 05
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot.
Others look on it as a cow they can milk.
Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money."
2021 May 04
"Nothing is easier than spending public money.
It does not appear to belong to anybody.
The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody."
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative
and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could
and should do for themselves."
"A billion here, a billion there,
sooner or later it adds up to real money."
2021 May 03
"To achieve world government,
it is necessary to remove from the minds of men,
their individualism, loyalty to family traditions,
national patriotism and religious dogmas."
"The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual."
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
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