COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 07:42 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 13, 14.The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay…If such a law is not abolished immediately, it will spread: multiply and develop into a system. -
William J. H. Boetcker
July 07, 2009 at 07:39 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
William J. H Boetcker, The Ten Cannots (1916)You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. -
Thomas Jefferson
July 07, 2009 at 07:28 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edward F. Mrkvicka, Jr., Your Bank is Ripping You Off (St. Martin's Griffin; Revised edition, 1999) p. 9.If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
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John Adams
July 07, 2009 at 07:23 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Written in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1787.All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
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John Maynard Keynes
July 07, 2009 at 07:21 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
John Maynard Keynes, C.B., The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Macmillion and Company, London, 1920) p. 220, 221.By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
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Robert Hemphill
July 07, 2009 at 07:15 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Irving Fisher, 100% Money (Adelphi, 1935) Foreward.If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.
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Louis T. McFadden
July 07, 2009 at 07:12 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jerry Robinson, Bankruptcy of Our Nation (New Leaf Publishing Group/New Leaf Press) p. 167.Some people think the Federal Reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 07:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 59.God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.
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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 07:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Stuart Ewenm PR!: A Social History of Spin (Basic Books, 1998) p. 34, 35.The duty of the higher strata of society — the cultivated, the learned, the expert, the intellectual — is therefore clear. They must inject moral and spiritual motives into public opinion.
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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 06:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edward L. Bernays, Propoganda (1928) p. 47, 48.If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, the elite could control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it…just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline.
