The following quotes speak to the division of thought that exists in America today.  As politicians promise favors from the platform, as voters clamor to vote along lines of envy, greed, jealousy, and class warfare, I am convinced that the words spoken below are as true today as when they were first written.  The laws of economics are broken only on the back of a nation.  If a people lose their economic freedom, and this can only happen when it is taken by force, they will always lose their personal freedom along with it.

I will post another article shorty, expounding upon these statements.  But first, a contest.  Can anyone guess who said the following?  (Hint: they are all from the same source).

"Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force.  Money is made possible only by the men who produce."

"Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think."

"Money rests on the maxim that man is the owner of his mind and his effort."

"Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality – the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind."

" . . . you will see the rise of the men of the double standard – the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money – the men who are the hitch-hikers of virtue."

". . . when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.  Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality.  It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."

"Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded."

"You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities.  Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor."

"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money – and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement.  For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work."

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose – because it contains all the others – the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to MAKE money.’  No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity – to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor.  Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created."

"Now the looters credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt."