"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~Goethe
"The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency. Creating and issuing money is the supreme prerogative of government and its greatest creative opportunity. Adopting these principles will save the taxpayers immense sums of interest and money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity." ~President Abraham Lincoln
Our money has been created, issued and circulated by a private bank known as the Federal Reserve since 1914. The government works for this private organization which is owned by a small group of bankers...the true rulers.
In observing Americans failure to speak their minds Alexis de Tocqueville noted:
It does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces [citizens] to being nothing more than a herd of timid industrious animals of which the government is the shepard."
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." ~Thomas Jefferson
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
~President Woodrow Wilson, 1919 (commenting about his greatest regret, signing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, thereby giving control of our government to the banks, and therefore to the powerful, rich men who control them)
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~Benjamin Franklin
"There was never a good war nor a bad peace." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory." -Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
"People should not be afraid of their government, the Government should be afraid of its people." ~V, V for Vendetta
