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"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war."
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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."

"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."

"From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune."
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"There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati."


"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions."


"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."


"By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West."


"In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so."


"In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures."


"When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally."


"The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training."


"It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists."


"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers."
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