15 Quotes From Our Founding Fathers About Economics, Capitalism And Banking

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Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:34 pm

15 Quotes From Our Founding Fathers About Economics, Capitalism And Banking
Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse
June 10, 2014

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#1 �A wise and frugal government� shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.� � Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

#2 �A people� who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.� � George Washington

#3 �Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.� � James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792

#4 �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

#5 �To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.� � Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

#6 �The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If �Thou shalt not covet� and �Thou shalt not steal� were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.� � John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787

#7 �I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements.� � Thomas Jefferson

#8 �Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.� � Thomas Paine

#9 �If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.� � Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, November 29, 1802

#10 �All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.� � John Adams, at the Constitutional Convention (1787)

#11 �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

#12 �Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.� � John Adams, 1765

#13 �If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.� � George Washington

#14 �I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.� � Thomas Jefferson

#15 �When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.� � Benjamin Franklin

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