"They that can give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty
nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Mankind soon learns to make interested
uses of every right and power, which they possess, or may assume.
The public money and public liberty... will soon be discovered
to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them;
distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance, that they
are the instrument, as well as the object of acquisition."
- Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia,
1784)
"The few who can understand the system (Federal
Reserve) will either be so interested in its profits, or so
dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from
that class, while on the other hand, the great body of the people,
mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages
that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens
without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the
system is inimical to their interests." - John
Sherman, protege of the Rothschild banking family
"Hitler does not have a new secret weapon at
his disposal. He does not give his victory to an excellent intelligence
service which informs him of the plans of his opponents. Even
the much-talked-of 'fifth column' was not decisive. He won because
the supposed opponents were already quite sympathetic to the
ideas for which he stood (labor and specifically state socialism).
Only those who unconditionally and unrestrictedly consider the
market economy as the only workable form of social cooperation
are opponents of the totalitarian systems and are capable of
fighting them successfully." - Ludwig von Mises
from Interventionism, An Economic Analysis; originally published
"in 1940 as part of Nationaloekonomie, the German predecessor
to Human Action
"It is error alone which needs the support
of government. Truth can stand by itself." - Thomas
Jefferson
"That Keynes was a Keynesian—of that
much derided Keynesian system provided by Hicks, Hansen, Samuelson,
and Modigliani—is the only explanation that makes any
sense of Keynesian economics. Yet Keynes was much more than
a Keynesian. Above all, he was the extraordinarily pernicious
and malignant figure that we have examined in this chapter:
a charming but power-driven statist Machiavelli, who embodied
some of the most malevolent trends and institutions of the twentieth
century" - Murray Rothbard's concluding
words in the chapter "Keynes, the Man" from "Dissent
on Keynes..." (1992)
"Still, as Jacob Burckhardt says, power is
evil in itself, no matter who exercises it. It tends to corrupt
those who wield it and leads to abuse. Not only absolute sovereigns
and aristocrats, but the masses also, in whose hands democracy
entrusts the supreme power of government, are only too easily
inclined to excesses." - von Mises
(Liberalism)
"The truth that makes men free is for the most
part the truth which men prefer not to hear." - Herbert
Sebastien Agar (1897-1980); The Time for Greatness,
1942
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's
views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the
U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid
of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is
a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked,
so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above
their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow
Wilson - In his book entitled The New Freedom (1913)
"The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager
to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International
Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the
State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking
system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power
independent of and above the Government of the United States....The
United States under present conditions will be transformed from
the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and
importing nation with a balance of trade against it" -
Rep. Louis McFadden, (Chairman of the
House Committee on Banking and Currency) quoted in the NY Times
(1930); there were at least two attempts on his life... he died
of suspected poisoning after attending a banquet
"The people never give up their liberties,
but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke
"After a shooting spree, they always want to
take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure
as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people
allowed guns are the police and the military." - William
Burroughs
