Memorable quotes

[hgmichna]

Please add more citations! I'll make a start with this one:

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

Friedrich August von Hayek

[hotcoldcoin]

I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

- Satoshi Nakamoto, November 1, 2008

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

- Satoshi Nakamoto, November 1, 2008

This pretty much sums the whole thread.

[Liquid]

I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

- Satoshi Nakamoto, November 1, 2008

This pretty much sums the whole thread.

+1

[hgmichna]

Nah, there's more to it. How about this one?

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. 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. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!

Ron Paul

[pollen_bit]

"Let's hack the NSA and use their CPU's to mine for bitcoin and then use proceeds to buy them out and then torch the place." Max Keiser 

[FeedbackLoop]

"Therefore we decree that these prices, which the written text of the subjoined abstract indicates, be kept by the observance of our whole realm: let all understand that license to exceed the same limits has been cut off in advance. As a result, in those places where a profusion of goods should noticeably abound, the benefit of low prices, which is very much the object of our care and foresight, is not hindered while greed, checked in advance, is restrained."

 - Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian

Source: http://orion.it.luc.edu/~jlong1/priceed.htm

[kokojie]

I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.

- Satoshi Nakamoto, November 1, 2008

+100000

[franky1]

this is how i see that bitcoin community SHOULD be thinking about how to develop bitcoin, libertarian movements and everything wrong with the world..

quoted from someone in the 1940's. i wont give it away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsgaFKwUA6g

[Phinnaeus Gage]

this is how i see that bitcoin community SHOULD be thinking about how to develop bitcoin, libertarian movements and everything wrong with the world..

quoted from someone in the 1940's. i wont give it away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsgaFKwUA6g

I guessed correctly.

[herzmeister]

Nah, there's more to it. How about this one?

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. 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. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!

Ron Paul

But then how about

The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_the_state

 

[hgmichna]

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

[CoinsForTech]

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Beat me to it!

Some strong quotes below. Sorry if I am swaying too far towards the obvious financial misconduct by the Fed, however this is what drew me so favorably towards Bitcoin.

     "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" — Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR)

    "This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill." — Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913

    "From now on, depressions will be scientifically created." — Congressman Charles A.
Lindbergh Sr. , 1913

    "The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board as ministers the finance system by authority of  a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money" -- Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923

    "The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny..." — Congressman
Wright Patman, Congressional Record, Sept 30, 1941

"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it". — Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

    "The Federal Reserve banks are 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" — Congressman Louis T. McFadden (Rep. Pa)