Quotes.........

[HARDCORE]

These statements were made during hearings of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, September 30, 1941. Members of the Federal Reserve Board call themselves "Governors." Governor Marriner Eccles was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board at the time of these hearings:

Congressman Patman: "How did you get the money to buy those two billion dollars worth of Government securities in 1933?"

Governor Eccles: "Out of the right to issue credit money."

Patman: "And there is nothing behind it, is there, except our Government's credit?"

Eccles: "That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money."

Congressman Fletcher: "Chairman Eccles, when do you think there is a possibility of returning to a free and open market, instead of this pegged and artificially controlled financial market we now have?"

Governor Eccles: "Never, not in your lifetime or mine."

-- Marriner Stoddard Eccles
(1890-1977) US banker, economist, and Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1934-48)
Source: during hearings of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, September 30, 1941.

[HARDCORE]

" Let us no longer be deceived by the cry of those who produce NOTHING and who enjoy ALL, and who insultingly term us...... the LOWER ORDERS, and exultingly claim our homage for themselves, as the HIGHER ORDERS -----WHILE THE Declaration of Independence asserts that "All men are created equal."

Seth Luther [1795?-1846] Labor Leader

[HARDCORE]

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
Source: A Pillar of Iron, a novel based on the life of Cicero by Taylor Caldwell (1965), p. 451
_______________________________________________

Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again.

Dr. Jim Boren --- Humorist and Author
Source: Wall Street Journal, June 2, 1998


_______________________________________________
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Gaius Petronius Arbiter -- Roman Satirist --- Date: 210 BC
Source: Falsely attributed. More likely from Robert Townsend, 'Up The Organization' 1970
__________________________________________________ _

Vote For The Better Candiate, An Oxymoron If Ever There Was.

H. Rick Tavares 22 October 2008

[HARDCORE]

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom."
-- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th US President
1913
Source: in his book, The New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People, chapter 8

[HARDCORE]

"More than twenty-one have confessed that they .... engaged in .... bewitching and ruining our land .... The devil has made a dreadful knot of witches in the country. [Wonders of the Invisible World, 1693]

Cotton Mather [1663-1728] Puritan Divine

[DeadlyDaring]

First rule of politics: Never make promises to the electorate that they can remember. (GW BUSH promises the fuel crisis will be solved within 24 hours - it isn't!)

>>>>>>>>>>

The frailties of capitalism and democracy are exposed by a petrol shortage of less than one week's duration.

[DeadlyDaring]

Do what you believe is the right thing and not the most popular.

>>>>>>>>>>

Make every effort to be yourself in life - no-one else can be!

[HARDCORE]

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
-- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

[DeadlyDaring]

Those who spend four years training for the Olympics are doing it for themselves and not for their country.

>>>>>>>>>>

Sometimes what you give up to gain something is worth more than your achievement.

[DeadlyDaring]

When did you last tell each of your family that you loved them?

>>>>>>>>>>

A lie is a problem waiting to be discovered.