from reader Peter Martori
Posted on | September 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national
blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to
raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the
liberties of the country.”
— Andrew Jackson
(1767-1845) 7th US President
Source: in a letter to T. H. Colman, 26 April 1824
https://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Andrew.Jackson.Quote.5038
“Governments do not govern,
but merely control the machinery of government,
being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist
https://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Disraeli.Quote.504D
“And I sincerely believe, with you, 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
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: letter to John Taylor in 1816
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One Response to “from reader Peter Martori”
October 6th, 2009 @ 12:12 am
You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).