Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Give a small boy a hammer
and he will find that everything he encounters
needs pounding."

~ Abraham Kaplan  

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;
united with it, she is the mother of the arts
and the origin of marvels."

~ Goya

"One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic."

~ Josef Stalin  

"The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is
the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank."

~ Walter Bagehot  

"Bankers have no right to establish a customary law among themselves, at the expence of other men."

~ Sir Michael Foster  

"The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the
Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks
create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds
from the U.S. Treasury ... and has created out of
nothing a ... debt which the American people are
obliged to pay with interest."

~ Wright Patman  

"Those who are convinced
they have a monopoly on The Truth
always feel that they are only saving the world
when they slaughter the heretics."

~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  

"Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk."

~ Bertolt Brecht  

"Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind
under a republican form of government than any other."

~ George Washington  

"Because of 'fractional' reserve system, banks, as a whole,
can expand our money supply several times, by making loans and investments."

~ Federal Reserve Bank of New York  

"Thus, our national circulating medium is now
at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend,
not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess."

~ Irving Fisher  

"The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world."

~ Alan Greenspan  

"We make money the old fashioned way. We print it."

~ Art Rolnick  

~ George Washington