"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
- George Washington


"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
- Confucius

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
- George Washington

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
- Voltaire

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."
- Adolf Hitler

"(...) the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Hermann Göring

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
- Voltaire

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
- Goethe

Sapere aude! Veritas vincit Novus Ordo Seclorum!
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"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." - 1881, President James Garfield

"[We] must keep the people busy with political antagonisms."
"We'll therefore speed up the question of reform [of tariffs within] the Democratic Party; and we'll put the spotlight on the question of protection ... [for] the Republican Party."
"By dividing the electorate this way, we'll be able to have them spend their energies at struggling amongst themselves on questions that, for us, have no importance whatsoever." - United States Bankers magazine, 1892; as quoted in the Michael Journal, Jan.-Feb. 2003

"Well, first of all the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means basically that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take" - Alan Greenspan

"Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should." - Alan Greenspan

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