The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.