Quotes.........

[HARDCORE]

"For the average American family, filling out a tax form has become like attacking a puzzle to which, often enough, there is no right answer. But we're all supposed to swear, on penalty of perjury, that we've done our best to find it."
-- Paul Greenberg
Columnist, The Washington Times



"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today."
-- Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) Writer and economist



"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
-- Will Rogers
(1879-1935) American humorist

[HARDCORE]

"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. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908- ) Canadian-born economist, Harvard professor
Source: 'Money: Whence it came, where it went' (1975)



"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
-- Lord Acton
[John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902), First Baron Acton of Aldenham



"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821) French emperor

[revwardoc]

Never judge a book by its movie. J. W. Eagan

[HARDCORE]

"A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra
often had to be subsidized."
-- John Barrymore



"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
(1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator



"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues,
and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: letter to William Plumer, July 21, 1816

[HARDCORE]

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

-- Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"

[revwardoc]

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Evan Esar

[HARDCORE]

"[The] Bank of the United States... is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution... An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular
functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?"
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Thomas Jefferson did write this (about Banks) to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1803

[revwardoc]

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. Steven Pearl

[phuloi]

"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich." --National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)

[phuloi]

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." --Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)