Lincoln
"The money powers prey upon the nation in time of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy. they denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or threw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the back of me an of the two of them the bankers in the rear of me is my greatest foe."
- Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln said that his adversary had "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and come up drier than any other man he knew".
John Locke
"First, they are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the country man at plough.
Secondly, these laws also ought to be designed for no other end ultimately, but the good of the people.
Thirdly, they must not raise taxes on the property of the people, without the consent of the people, given by themselves or their deputies.
And this properly concerns only such governments where the legislative is always in being, or at least where the people have not reserved any part of the legislative to deputies to be from time to time chosen by themselves.
Fourthly, the legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it anywhere, but where the people have . . ." - John Locke, Second Treatise on Government
"The money powers prey upon the nation in time of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy. they denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or threw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the back of me an of the two of them the bankers in the rear of me is my greatest foe."
- Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln said that his adversary had "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and come up drier than any other man he knew".
John Locke
"First, they are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favorite at court and the country man at plough.
Secondly, these laws also ought to be designed for no other end ultimately, but the good of the people.
Thirdly, they must not raise taxes on the property of the people, without the consent of the people, given by themselves or their deputies.
And this properly concerns only such governments where the legislative is always in being, or at least where the people have not reserved any part of the legislative to deputies to be from time to time chosen by themselves.
Fourthly, the legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it anywhere, but where the people have . . ." - John Locke, Second Treatise on Government