Central Government Quotes

• History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

  James Madison

  Lying, Mean, Government

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  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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• We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Nwo, Free Opinion, World Government

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Real, World Government

  "F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

  Charles August Lindbergh

  Government, President, Bankers

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• 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

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Confidence, Mistake, Women

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• 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 should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Believe, Taken

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• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Rights, Government

  Letter to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787

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• A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ambition, Government, Political

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.523

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• The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

  Murray Rothbard

  Men, Gun, Hands

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• We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.

  Andy Sawford

  Government, Voice, Stronger

  "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  College, Rights, Government

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• Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

  Peter Drucker

  Taken, Government, Principles

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.107, Routledge

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• Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

  Michael Anti

  Government, Political, Chinese

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• Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Government, Size, Misery

  Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Military, Gun, Government

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• The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Limits

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on the French Revolution”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, Believe

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• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  George Will

  Country, Strong, Government

  George F. Will (2010). “Restoration”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

  George Will

  Government, Hands, Years

  "George Will's Libertarian Evolution". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, reason.com. December, 2013.

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• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Liberty, Inquiry

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

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• Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Majority

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• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Details, Different

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

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