"Conscience".seldom comes to a
man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and reveling in pomp and luxury
upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes
too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter." ---General
George Washington, letter John P. Posey, Aug. 7, 1782
"Knowledge is in every country the
surest basis of public happiness." ---President, General George Washington, speech
to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790
"However [political parties] may
now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and
things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled
men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for
themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines
which have lifted them to unjust dominion." ---President, General George
Washington, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796.
"All the perplexities, confusion
and distress in America arise, not from . . .want of honor or virtue, but from
the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." - -
John Adams second President.
"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." ---Fourth President, James Madison.
"I hope we shall... crush in its
birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to
challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws
of our country." --- Third President, Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan.
November 12, 1816""""""..source---Thomas Jefferson quotes.
-- the banks and corporations that will grow
up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity-- --- Third
President, Thomas Jefferson
"When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." ---Third
President, Thomas Jefferson
"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."
---Third President, Thomas Jefferson said in 1802.
"In this point of the case the
question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to
govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether
the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to
influence their judgment and control their decisions" ---President Andrew
Jackson, on his address to Congress December 3, 1833. (He explicitly demanded
that the banks cease its political activities or receive a corporate death
sentence--revocation of its corporate charter.)
"I have the confederacy before me and the bankers behind me- and for my country, I fear the bankers the most!" --- Sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln.
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --- Sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln.
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