Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."

~ Horace Greeley  

"While democracy must have its organizations and controls,
its vital breath is individual liberty."

~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes  

"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears
like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

“I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy
investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for.
One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
War for any other reason is simply a racket."

~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler  

"Hamilton's whole monetary policy is based on unconstitutional grounds and unsound reasoning, and fraudulent statements. His policies were fought through the whole public career of Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Randolph and many another truly great lovers of Republican Government.

His policies have proved to be more destructive of our independent and democratic form of government than the old subjugation of the Colonies by Great Britain. The deliberations in Congress over Hamilton's Bank Bill, and the opinions of members of The Cabinet show the intensity of feeling between the private money interests and those supporting the Constitution. History records that the “money changers” have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance."

~ Olive Cushing Dwinell  

"Banks lend by creating credit.
They create the means of payment out of nothing."

~ Ralph M. Hawtrey  

"Money for me has only one sound: liberty."

~ Gabrielle Chanel  

"Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm. A 5% devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but to all that is left over from previous years. At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents. At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on. By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years. By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%. The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime."

~ G. Edward Griffin  

"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees --
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

~ John Dryden  

"The banks -- commercial banks and the Federal Reserve -- create all the money of this nation and its people pay interest on every dollar of that newly created money. Which means that private banks exercise unconstitutionally, immorally, and ridiculously the power to tax the people. For every newly created dollar dilutes to some extent the value of every other dollar already in circulation."

~ Jerry Voorhis  

"... our whole monetary system is dishonest, as it is debt-based...
We did not vote for it. It grew upon us gradually but markedly
since 1971 when the commodity-based system was abandoned."

~ Malcolm Sinclair  

"They will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final or total catastrophe of the currency system involved."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ... Roosevelt's policies were very destructive. Roosevelt's policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been."

~ Milton Friedman  

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."

~ Sir Winston Churchill