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Aug 23, 2011 20:29:55 GMT -5
Post by elephant on Aug 23, 2011 20:29:55 GMT -5
5.9 earthquake in the DC area, probably just the founding fathers rolling over in their graves. ~ David Norman
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Aug 24, 2011 15:39:24 GMT -5
Post by Aminal on Aug 24, 2011 15:39:24 GMT -5
"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants." --Alexander Hamilton
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Aug 31, 2011 13:21:39 GMT -5
Post by Aminal on Aug 31, 2011 13:21:39 GMT -5
"When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident." --Ronald Reagan
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Sept 15, 2011 13:38:15 GMT -5
Post by Aminal on Sept 15, 2011 13:38:15 GMT -5
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall
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Oct 12, 2011 13:13:18 GMT -5
Post by elephant on Oct 12, 2011 13:13:18 GMT -5
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
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Oct 22, 2011 16:18:42 GMT -5
Post by Jack Frost on Oct 22, 2011 16:18:42 GMT -5
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left." ~ William O. Douglas
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation." ~ James Madison
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms." ~ Aristotle
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nov 1, 2011 15:02:02 GMT -5
Post by elephant on Nov 1, 2011 15:02:02 GMT -5
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Nov 1, 2011 15:09:15 GMT -5
Post by Jack Frost on Nov 1, 2011 15:09:15 GMT -5
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin D. Roosevelt to Colonel Edward House, Oct. 21, 1933.
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