Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin.
The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them,
but leave them the power to create deposits,
and with the flick of the pen they will
create enough deposits to buy it back again.
However, take it away from them, and
all the great fortunes like mine
will disappear and they ought to disappear, for
this would be a happier and better world to live in.
But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers
and pay the cost of your own slavery,
let them continue to create deposits."

~ Sir Josiah Stamp  

"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  

"Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good."

~ Alexander Dielius  

"It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important ethical teachers -- Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, for instance -- have denounced lending at interest as usury and as morally wrong."

~ Lawrence Dennis  

"And Jesus went into the temple of God,
and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers,
and the seats of them that sold doves,
And said unto them, 'It is written,
My house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves.'"

~ Jesus of Nazareth  

"Those who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom Satan has prostrated by his touch does rise. That is because they say, trading is only like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury. To whomsoever then the admonition has come from his Lord, then he desists, he shall have what is already passed, and his affairs are in the hands of Allah; and whoever returns to it - these are the inmates of the fire; they shall abide in it..."

~ Qur'an  

"The modern banking system manufactures “money” out of nothing;
and the process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of
“sleight of hand” that was ever invented.
In fact, it was not invented. It merely “grew”. ...
Banks in fact are able to create (and cancel) modern “deposit money”,
just as much as they were originally able to create, or call in,
their own original forms of private notes.
They can, in fact, inflate and deflate, i.e., mint, and un-mint
the modern “ledger-entry” currency."

~ Major L. L. B. Angas  

"While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery."

~ Horace Greeley  

"Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done
less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans."

~ R. H. Tawney  

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them
between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept."

~ James A. Garfield  

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

~ John Ruskin  

"The high office of the President has been used to foment
a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office,
I must inform the citizen of this plight."

~ John F. Kennedy (Questionable)  

"What is needed here is a return to the Constitution of the United States. We need to have a complete divorce of Bank and State. The old struggle that was fought out here in Jackson's day must be fought over again... The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed and the Federal Reserve Banks, having violated their charters, should be liquidated immediately. Faithless Government officers who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial. Unless this is done by us, I predict that the American people, outraged, robbed, pillaged, insulted, and betrayed as they are in their own land, will rise in their wrath and send a President here who will sweep the money changers out of the temple."

~ Louis McFadden  

~ Woodrow Wilson