A long way from being there.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

— Abba Eban, Speech in London [December 16, 1970

Keep the people poor.

The fundamental problem is the Fed itself, which purports to be the great savior of the money system but in fact is its destroyer. By flooding the economy with ever more paper money, it reduces the value of our money — an insidious tax that the governing elites levy in ways that keep the people in the dark.

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “The Inflation Monster and Its Owner”

Something to think about next time.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

— Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Josiah Quincy [September 11, 1773

Maybe the greatest cause for the demise of great states.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

— Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland [1819