"The modern banking process manufactures currency out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of slight of hand that was ever invented . . . If you want to be slaves of the bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the banks create currency."

Lord Josiah Stemp, director of the Bank of England -- 1937.

Russell Comment -- Say hello to the Federal Reserve and central banking along with debts, deficits, inflation and the income tax.

“Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it to a desert. The magic of property turns sand into gold.”

— Arthur Young, Travels (1787)

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons because, to them, you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE)

"If you don't trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a pine tree, worth $4,000-$5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars?"

-- Kenneth J. Gerbino

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

-Will Rogers

"Unlike an animal, man is not told by drives and instincts what he must do. And in contrast to man in former times, he is no longer told by traditions and values what he should do. Now, knowing neither what he must do nor what he should do, he sometimes does not even know what he basically wishes to do. Instead, he wishes to do what other people do -- which is conformism -- or he does what other people wish him to do -- which is totalitarianism."

… Viktor Frankl

Have we been waiting too long, waiting for Government to take care of life for us?


"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the
river to run out before he crosses."

Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

One of the most destructive myths is the belief that you damage your business by taking a position with which some of your customers won't agree.

Here's another perspective on the pernicious nature of neutrality.



"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented"

.. Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

… Albert Einstein

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them, and cover them up."

… Ed Murrow