Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, People, Liberty

• If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Money, Differences

  "Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

• I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Political, Principles, Constitution

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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