On Money

“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 (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” —Thomas Jefferson

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." —Benjamin Franklin

“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 legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill.” —Charles Lindbergh Sr.

"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board asministers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money" —Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923

“It’s taken almost two centuries for bankers to pull the wool over Americans’ eyes, but today you and I are working for intrinsically worthless paper that can be created by bureaucrats — created without sweat, without creative ability, without work, without anything but a decision by the Federal Reserve. This is the disease at the base of today’s monetary system. And like a cancer, it will spread until the system ultimately falls apart. This is the tragedy of the great lie. The great lie is that fiat paper represents a store of value, money of lasting wealth.”
—Richard Russell

"Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation...but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job."—Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe

“I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and 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

“You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.” —George Bernhard Shaw“

"Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.” —Alan Greenspan

“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

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” —Henry Ford

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... 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

"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise the truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it." —John Kenneth Galbraith

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ---- zero." —Voltaire

On Freedom and Government

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency’.” —Herbert Hoover

“Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich.” — Leon Uris

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
— Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." — Samuel Adams

"The most important element of a free society... is the rejection of the initiation of violence." —Rep. Ron Paul

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." —John Kenneth Galbraith

Other

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
—Oscar Wilde

“Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before.” —John Kenneth Galbraith

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." —Bertrand Russell

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

"Some of the best commentaries take the form of poetry."—Jon Roland

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." —Bertrand Russell

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."—Plato 

"Self important superiority causes you to be constantly offended in one way or another. This misidentification is the source of most of most of your problems, as well as most of the problems of humankind." —Wayne Dyer