Monetary System Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Hands, Gold

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• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  Irving Fisher

  Historical, Promise, Banking

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• The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hands, Liberty, Quality

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• The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

  William Paterson

  Historical, Banking, Credit

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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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• 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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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Gold, Wealth

  "Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan, www.constitution.org. 1966.

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• The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the international bankers.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Running, Men, Voice

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• Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

  Ron Paul

  Taken, Feds, Ends

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• The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Money, Men, Civilization

  "The C.S.L.T.: containing views on Abraham Lincoln as expressed by Bismarck in 1878, from the recollections of Conrad von Bauditz Siem". Book by Conrad von Bauditz Siem, 1915.

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• And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Light, Enemy, Bankers

  Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York, August 30, 1906.

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• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, United States, Dams

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• We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Welfare, Government Debt, Historical

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Money, War, Historical

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• Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Money, Freedom, Liberty

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Safety, Rothschild

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• 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.

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• I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Political, Aristocracy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Simple, Mind

  "Money: Whence it came, where it went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 15, 29, 1975.

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• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.

  John C. Calhoun

  Powerful, Government, People

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Believe, Army, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.277

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