"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the
issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the
people of their property until their children will wake up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered."
– Thomas Jefferson
Silver Liberty vs. Silver Eagle
Alan
Greenspan once had a conscience....
"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 'hidden' confiscation of
wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands
as a protector of property rights."
- Alan Greenspan; "Gold and Economic Freedom"
Words to Ponder
The good guys in White,
the Bad Guys in Black on the right maybe...
maybe not ...
some were on both sides...
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense."
- Buddha (563BC-483BC)
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
-- not going all the way, and not starting...
- Buddha (563BC-483BC)
Thomas Jefferson: On Central Banking
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction. I sincerely believe, with you...that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
- Thomas Jefferson
"To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill [chartering the first Bank of the United States] have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution - taking from the Federal government their power of borrowing (from privately-owned corporate banks)."
- Thomas Jefferson
"We are undone, my dear sir, if legislation is still permitted which makes our money, much or little, real or imaginary, as the moneyed interests shall choose to make it."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate."
- Thomas Jefferson
"To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils."
-Thomas Holcroft
"Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money
that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted."
- John Ruskin, The Crown of the Wild Olive (1866)
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve
the rights of ordinary Americans...",
- President Bill Clinton, USA Today, Mar 11, 1993, Pg 2A.
"Fascism will come to America in the guise of National Security"
- Jim Garrison, Atty. General of New Orleans
"American Communists worked energetically and tirelessly to
lay the foundations for the United Nations which
we were sure would come into existence"
- Earl Browder, Gen Sec, Communist Party-USA.
"The government's monetary role is to maintain the integrity
of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud."
"Government exists to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth
or to grant special privileges."
"The lives and actions of people are their own
responsibility, not the government's."
"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
- Aldous Huxley,
Tavistock Group,
California Medical School, 1961 -
"... the Federal Reserve and its member banks are not government
institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the People...
for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers... the truth is this:
The Fed has usurped the (U.S.) government. It controls everything
here (in Congress) and it controls all our foreign relations.
It makes and breaks governments at will."
- Congressman Louis T. McFadden (remarks to Congress, 1934)
"Whoever controls the volume of money in
any country is the master of all its legislation and commerce."
- President James Garfield (1880)
"This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth...
When the President signs this Act, the invisible government
by the Money Power... will be legalized. The new law will create
inflation whenever the trust wants inflation...
from now on, depression will be scientifically created."
- Congressman Charles Lindbergh (commenting on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913)
“I want to make one thing clear. This war against our Constitution
is not being fought way off in Madagascar or Mandalay.
It is being fought here -- in our schools, our colleges, our churches,
our women’s clubs. It is being fought with our money, channeled
through the State Department. It is being fought
24 hours a day, while we remain asleep.”
- Honorable Senator William E. Jermer, spoken in the United States Senate.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
Several quotes from a former Assistant Treasury Secretary.
They were excerpted from a letter he sent to a congressman.
"A Federal Reserve note has no lawful or standard value..."
"Intrinsically, a Federal Reserve note is only a piece of paper
declared by the United States government to be legal tender for all
debts and on which a denomination has been imprinted as a matter of
convenience..." "The denominational indication is only
incidental..."
"...the reason for them being readily accepted and exchanged at
their face value, is obtained from the trust and confidence the
citizenry have in their government."
"The Federal Reserve notes are first liens on the assets of the
issuing Federal Reserve bank..."
"Rights belong to individuals, not groups."
"Property should be owned by people, not government."
"All voluntary associations should be permissionable -- economic and social."
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