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It was the king’s army, the king’s people, the king’s taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
You are forever alone.
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes – the interest – is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.