"The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency."

-- Henry Cabot Lodge

#Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.”
“If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.”

Source : "La. Rep. Refuses Obama Invitation to be "Lectured to" at GOP Debt Meeting" by L.A. Holmes, www.foxnews.com. June 1, 2011.
“Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.”
“A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.”
“To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.”
“Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.”
“In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.”

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.1, Cornell University Press

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