Quotes - 黃金與貨幣 Gold is Money

George Bernard Shaw (英國劇作家, 蕭伯納): You have to choose between trusting the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you to vote for gold.

對於黃金的穩定性﹐與政府官員的智慧和可靠程度﹐你們要二擇其一。我無意中傷政府的官員﹐但我還是奉勸各位最好選擇黃金。



Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild (appointed Bullion Broker to the Bank of England, 1840-52 (向英倫銀行提供黃金的私人銀行家): I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.

我不在乎誰坐上王位。控制著英國貨幣的那個人就控制著大英帝國﹐而我就是那個人。

Quotes - 銀行與金融 Money and Banking

John Kenneth Galbraith (Money: Whence it came, where it went, 1975) (加拿大籍的著名美國經濟學家﹐“貨幣的何去何從”) : The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

貨幣的學問好像很複雜。但是這只因為有人故意把它變得複雜﹐來掩飾或迴避事實。銀行創造貨幣的過程簡單得很﹐令一般人難以接受。



Charles Dickens (英國作家) : Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

信貸制度就像一個沒有能力償還債務的人﹐去找一個沒有能力償還債務的人﹐來作他的擔保人。

Quotes - 政府與權力 Government and Power

Thomas Jefferson (美國第三任總統 1801-09):
A government that can give you everything you want, can also take away everything you have.

一個能給你一切的政府也同時能奪去你所有。



同上(Ditto): When government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny.

當政府恐懼人民﹐人民就得自由。相反﹐當人民恐懼政府﹐政府就會變得獨裁。



同上(Ditto): A democracy is little more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.

民主只不過是群眾的暴政。百分之五十一的人就可以把百分之四十九的人的權利拿走



同上(Ditto): My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

我從歷史那裡領悟到這個真理﹐就是大多數的不良政權都是來自政府甚麼都要管。