Quote of the week

[Winterblues]

Quote of the Week
'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.'
Thomas Jefferson 1802

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 200 years of knowledge wasted.

:(

[Idealism]

2. Another great quote from a great man

The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. - Abraham Lincoln

[acmavm]

3. Sir Thomas More...

All the governments that have flourished since the beginning of time have been nothing but a continual conspiracy of the rich to perpetuate themselvs under the guise of statecraft.

[Greyhound]

4. It looks lonely, here are a few to keep it company while they sink out of sight... (Picture warning)

"...a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government..." Thomas Jefferson, in his 1801 inaugural address


"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom." - Thomas Paine


"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." --Mahatma Gandhi



"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for
the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in
high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few
hands and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln - Nov. 21, 1864, letter to Col. William F. Elkins


"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the
animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and
may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776


"For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product now is over 800 billion dollars a year, but that gross national product, if we judge the United States of America by that, that gross national product counts air pollution, and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic squall. It counts Napalm, and it counts nuclear warheads, and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our city. It counts Whitman's rifles and Speck's Knifes and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet, the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play; it does not include the beauty of our poetry of the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate for the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country it measures everything in short except that which makes life worth while. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans." - RFK said this while running for president in 1968


It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. - Henry Ford


Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild



Finally on a related note;
Corporate Personhood

1886 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific railroad - U.S. Supreme Court

In writing the case's headnote, a commentary with no legal status, the court reporter, J.C. Bancroft Davis, opened the headnote with the sentence: "The defendant corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteen Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

A handwritten note from Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite to Davis said: "We avoided meeting the Constitutional question in the decision." And nowhere n the decision itself does the court say that corporations are persons.

[malaise]

5. Super post on a great thread

K & R

[BrklynLiberal]

6. I wish I could recommend this post..

[Greyhound]

11. TYVM, kick. n/t

:kick:

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Well done. Thank you. n/t

[Greyhound]

15. YVW, Kick. n/t

[Cerridwen]

10. Nice. I'll just kick in my sig-line. No pic though.

:P

[Greyhound]

12. Indeed.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Everything we ever needed to know to have a great country...but

never asked...
It is ironic that the RW repukes are always so hot on the "Founding Fathers" yet consistently go against everything they stood for and spoke of.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. Isn't it vexing to see the extraordinary prescience of people such as

Jefferson, Lincoln and Eisenhower wasted. Just as if their most precious insights for future generations had never been uttered or even gained.

[Greyhound]

13. Another chance. The answer is right here people! n/t

:kick:

[onenote]

14. sounds good. only problem. its partially made up.

http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Category:Spurious_Quotations

click on "private banks"...