"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.” Abraham Lincoln
"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.” Abraham Lincoln
"Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.” Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people." Adam Smith
"Gold is not neccesary. I have no interest in gold. We will build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration camp. That's the bastion of money." Adolf Hitler
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for,that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic." A. J. P. Taylor
"The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That’s enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce’s office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services." Alan Bock
"Tariffs, quotas and other import restrictions protect the business of the rich at the expense of high cost of living for the poor. Their intent is to deprive you of the right to choose, and to force you to buy the high-priced inferior products of politically favored companies.” Alan Burris, A Liberty Primer
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, Gold and Economic Freedom
"Like it or not, you are a slave. You admit you are a slave every April 15th! That's when you sign forms that "voluntarily" lay bare to the government the most private details of your life! And few people realize the income tax is a slave tax. It can never be compatible with the life of a free people." Alan Keyes
"The only agreeable country is the one where no one is afraid of tax collectors." Alejandro Chafuen (quoting Pedro Fernandez Navarrete), FAITH AND LIBERTY (2003), p. 58.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." Alexis de Tocqueville
"If the banking system collapses, every single one of us would see the obvious problems. The economy would come down with it ... In an ideal world you would not want to be in this position ... Banks all over the world have got themselves in huge difficulties and, frankly, governments all over the world are having to sort the problem out." Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer
"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." Andrew Jackson
"The bold effort the Second National Bank of the U.S. had made to control government and the distress it has wantonly produced are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.” Andrew Jackson
"If Congress has the right to issue paper money currency, it was given to them to be used by the government and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.” President Andrew Jackson, Vetoed Bank Bill of 1836
"Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! If I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out! If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." Andrew Jackson
"Some [IRS agents] were vicious -- they’d brag back at the office, 'Boy did I make that guy jump.' Or 'I had that woman crying when I told her I’d put her on the street with her kids.' One agent who bragged about padlocking some guy’s business said the man was so upset he asked, 'How do you expect me to pay now?' The agent said, 'I told him, Go get your wife to peddle [herself].'" Art Harris
"And what sort of philosophical doctrine is this -- that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ... How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed. ... It is not possible to suppose, without absurdity, that a man should have no rights over his own body and mind, and yet have a 1/10,000,000th share in unlimited rights over all other bodies and minds?" Auberon Herbert
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." Ayn Rand
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" Ayn Rand
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand from Atlas Shrugged, Francicsco's "Money Speech"
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States." Senator Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR)
"The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power: Political, Monetary, Intellectual, and Ecclesiastical.” Barry Goldwater
"He was lord and master of the money-market of the world, and of course virtually lord and master of everything else…He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and monarchs and ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions." Benjamin Disraeli (Prime Minister of England writing on Lord Rothschild)
"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection, it is plunder." Benjamin Disraeli
"Give me control over a man’s economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I’ll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to." Benjamine A. Rooge
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants." Benjamin Franklin
"The inability of the Colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of King George III and the international bankers, was the prime reason for the revolutionary war." Benjamin Frankin
"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution." Benjamin Franklin
"Time is money." Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break." Money baron Bernard Baruch in Baruch: The Public Years (1960)
"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank, than by holding up a bank clerk." Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German dramatist and poet.
"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State." Bertrand de Jouvenel
"The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for." Bill Bonner
"Printing up extra money – with no backing – used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it... announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.” Bill Bonner
"It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money." Bill Hicks
"The Rothschilds were Jesuits who used their Jewish background as a façade to cover their sinister activities. The Jesuits, working through Rothschild and Biddle, sought to gain control of the banking system of the United States." Bill Hughes (The Secret Terrorists)
"Keynesianism is in part economic theory, but its real goal is the social-governmental manipulation of markets intended to concentrate government power in the hands of the corporate few, producing corporatist fascism as the final economic and financial power under such a system and the final implementation, which ends in the brute force and the manipulation of laws for its completion, which is totalitarian government." Bob Chapman
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan
"I agree with you concerning the tax burden and its ultimate destruction of this country...I did not run for re-election as Mayor of Salt Lake City because of the feeling that Washington is slowly but surely taking over the operation of the states through the so-called furnishing of tax-dollars from Washington. I retired as Mayor of Salt Lake City on January 3, 1972, and do not again intend to seek public office." Bracken Lee
"To expose a 15 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last 100 years will be a tall order of business.” Buckminster Fuller
"Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?" Senator Carter Glass
"Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches." Catherine of Siena
"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers a finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. That system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money. This (Federal Reserve) Act establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth. When the president signs this bill, the invisible governments by the monetary power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed, the worst legislatives crime of the ages perpetrated by this banking bill.” Charles A. Lindbergh, Representative, MN
"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created." Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1913
"This act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill." Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., Speech on the Senate floor, November 1912
"Right to earn a living is an inalienable right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the constitution." City of Louisville e al. v. Sebree, 214 S.W. 2d 248
"This [audit] was made extremely difficult because [IRS] existing Systems were not designed to provide reliable financial information... on their operations". Comptroller Bowsher, Government Accounting Office, on the first-ever audit of the IRS in 1993.
"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But he didn’t. Most of his thoughts were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations One World Money Group. The United Nations is but a long range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The One-World government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.” Curtis Dall, Son-in-Law of F.D.R., 1936
"As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales." Dave Barry
"The best way to understand this whole issue is to look at what the government does: it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it, and gives the rest to other people." Dave Barry
"The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan." David Bergland
"...the very idea that some faceless government functionary can walk into my house, or my office, at any time and on any pretense and require me to spend my time and resources assisting him in going over my books so that he may demand more money from me money that will then flow through the machine to be used to purposes I find personally abhorrent -- is a truly warped and disturbing concept." David Galland
"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money." Davy Crockett
"Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision." Dick Armey
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." Dick Cavett
"Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions." Domingo Cavallo
"Never — and I mean never — blindly trust the statistics you read [or hear] about the economy." Don Luskin
"There is no prospect that today's younger workers will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them". Dorcas Hardy, former Social Security Commissioner and author of "Social Insecurity", quoted in the December 1995 Reader's Digest.
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." Douglas Casey
"The Fed 'buys' interest-bearing US Treasury Bonds with Federal Reserve Notes that they simply print up. The US government gets the 'money' (Federal Reserve Notes) and the Fed gets to collect interest on the Treasury Bonds even though they have invested nothing -- those massive profits go to the private bankers that own the Fed. The interest now due to the Fed each year is so huge that all of our income taxes are used to pay it. This is a crime against the American people and must be stopped. Jefferson and Jackson both stopped the 'Fed' of their day -- Lincoln and Kennedy tried. America will one day have to do it again -- sooner or later. History tells us that the bankers will never stop trying to foist this unnecessary system of usury upon the People -- we must be ever vigilant to prevent this from ever happening again." E. Archer, NYC
"The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place." Edwin Feulner
"We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility." Edwin Feulner
"History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse." Eric Alterman
"The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve banks from 143 million dollars in 1913 to 45 billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [federal reserve] banks.” Eustace Mullins
"It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, 'Thou shalt not steal,' becomes altered to say: 'Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft'." F.A. Harper
"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
"Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU." Federal Reserve Bank Of New York
"Without the confidence factor, many believe a paper money system is liable to collapse eventually." Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.” Fletcher Knebel, Historian
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." Sir Francis Bacon
"At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich." Frank Chodorov
"Our distress [the American people] comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods [the Invisible Money Power, the Banksters] have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers [the Banksters] stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they [the Banksters] have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they [the Banksters] have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish. The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilisation. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit." President Franklin Roosevelt
"With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people." Friedrich August von Hayek
"Aware that the Rothschilds are an important Jewish family, I looked them up in Encyclopedia Judaica and discovered that they bear the title "Guardians of the Vatican Treasury”…The appointment of Rothschild gave the black papacy absolute financial power and secrecy. Who would ever search a family of orthodox Jews for the key to the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church?" F. Tupper Saussy (Rulers of Evil)
