"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
[Andrew Jackson]
"The legal tender quality of money is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty."
[Chief Justice Salmon Chase]
"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
[Thomas Jefferson]
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those
entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
[Thomas Jefferson]
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they
create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
[Frederic Bastiat]
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance.
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
[Thomas Jefferson]
"I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the
principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
[Thomas Jefferson]
"And Night Will Be No More"