I want for our country enough laws to restrain me from injuring others, so that these laws will also restrain others from injuring me.
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Category: money
U.S. ruined by the Federal Reserve Bank
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.
Fiat money
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
War and money
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
Fiscal prudence
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public monies.
Unlimited government
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one …
Deficit spending
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
More dangerous than standing armies
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Banking control over government
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 the money and its issuance.
Government wealth transfer
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.