"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." -- George Washington
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"When playing Russian roulette the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next." -- Richard Feynman
FROM THE PRESIDENT'S PUPPETEER:
"Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend, and step off before it is discredited." -- George Soros
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." -- John Steinbeck
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people…. [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and … degeneracy of manners and of morals…. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." -- James Madison
"A great deal more is known than has been proved." -- Richard Feynman
“We are spending more money than we have ever spent before, and it does not work... After eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... and an enormous debt, to boot.” -- Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau to Congress in the aftermath of FDR's New Deal spending spree
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." -- Mark Twain
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