Quotes for our times


“Whoever expects to be ignorant and free.....
expects what never was and never will be"
Thomas Jefferson 

"None are more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are Free"
-Goethe- 1749-1832

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with  a conspiracy so
monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director 1924-1972

"Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty, nor safety"
Benjamin Franklin

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation,
One is by the sword.  The other is by Debt"
John Adams

“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   1801 - 1850

Founding Fathers on Corporations

  • “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” Thomas Jefferson
  • "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
  • “Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.” John Adams
  • “But charters and corporations have a more extensive evil effect than what relates merely to elections. They are sources of endless contentions in places where they exist, and they lessen the common rights of national society.” Thomas Paine The Rights of Man
  • “The growing wealth acquired by them [corporations] never fails to be a source of abuses.” James Madison
  • "...there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The power of all corporations, ought to be limited in this respect” James Madison