Attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, Congressional Record, vol. 114 (April 25, 1968) p. 10635. This passage was reprinted in U.S. News & World Report (July 29, 1968) p. 15.The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) p. 48.Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals. It might be difficult, if not impossible, to form the Continent into one government half a century hence…The more men have to lose the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.
David Boylan, Fox News, as quoted in Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment, by Luke AndersonWe paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is.
Nathan K. Lewis, Addison Wiggin, Gold (John Wiley and Sons, 2007) p. 175.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 its issuance.
The World's Bank Vol. XXV (Doubleday, Page, & Company, New York, 1913) p. 631.A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated [in the Federal Reserve System]. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.