Proverbs 11:1
The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.
Proverbs 13:11
Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Proverbs 28:8
Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
Leviticus 25:36
Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you
Leviticus 25:37
You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.
Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.
Matthew 21:12
Jesus at the Temple
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
Mark 11:15
On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving
out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables
of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,
John 2:15
So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
Paper
money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful
sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the
body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be
made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as
he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt
vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and
silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.
Thomas Paine
Paper
money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin
commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud
and injustice.
George Washington
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
Thomas Jefferson
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson
History records that the money changers have
used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible
to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's
issuance.
James Madison
If
congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it
was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or
corporations.
Andrew Jackson
The
money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires
against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,
more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It
denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw
light upon its crimes.
Abraham Lincoln
I
have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the
bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
Abraham Lincoln
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The
death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in
the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went
anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their
craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant
riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.
Otto von Bismarck
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
Karl Marx
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
Vladimir Lenin
The
study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which
complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal
it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is
repelled.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If,
however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to
take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price
out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money
becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no
longer.
John Maynard Keynes
By
a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly
and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield
These
international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control
the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into
submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the
bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible
government.
Theodore Roosevelt
I
am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great
industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of
credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the
worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free
opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the
majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of
dominant men.
Woodrow Wilson
It
is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a
revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
Of
all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none
has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
Daniel Webster
Money
is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by
the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between
master and slave.
Leo Tolstoy
The
advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of
decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices,
allocating resources - labor, capital and human ingenuity - in a manner
that can't be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central
planner.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Capitalism
is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any
deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular
preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant
order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that
population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the
preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of
free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as
an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.
Friedrich August von Hayek
The
system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom,
not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do
not.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Milton Friedman
The
Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused
The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in
circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.
Milton Friedman
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.
Milton Friedman
The
power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too
pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if
there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary
power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a
few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far
reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in
freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective
check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against
an independent central bank.
Milton Friedman
There
can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but
organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit
as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
Murray Rothbard
What...can the government do to help the poor?
The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
Murray Rothbard
Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.
Murray Rothbard
The
Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has
ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not
know that this nation is run by the international bankers.
Louis Thomas McFadden
Most
Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the
international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System
have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and
manipulates the credit of the United States.
Barry Goldwater
If
all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is:
relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals
problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay
attention to it.
Alan Greenspan
We
in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect
the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the
economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of
inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to
fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.
Ron Paul
A
system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated
by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest
rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central
bank.
Ron Paul
First
reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal
institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we
have delivered to a secretive body the privilege of creating money out
of thin air; if you or I did it, we'd be called counterfeiters, so why
have we legalized counterfeiting? But the economic reasons are
overwhelming: the Federal Reserve is the creature that destroys value.
Ron Paul
What's
happening is there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle
class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system
that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the
middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money
first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the
money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have
more billionaires than ever before.
Ron Paul
