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"Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions."
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"I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with..."
"Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown."
"It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take from me my five hundred pounds. Food, house, and clothing are mine forever. Therefore not merely do effort and labour cease, but also hatred and bitterness. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me."
"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on 'their' house and spending less of it on 'their' car or cars only when they start being able to take 'their' house to work, funerals, weddings, etc."
"Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent."
"If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending."
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"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation."
"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."
"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."
"Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war."
"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."
"Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either."
"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."
"The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain."
"To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain."
"When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue."
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