Quotes of Note

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, 
it is the courage to continue that counts." 
Winston Churchill
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"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.”  
- Sir John Templeton  

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein

  
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."
- Will Rogers 

“I am more concerned with the return of my money than the return on my money.”
- Mark Twain 

"When you're testing how deep water is, never use two feet."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Only two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; And I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein 

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born, is to remain always a child."  
- Cicero - 46 BC

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 
 

George Santayana

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”  
- Nikola Tesla

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” 
- Leonardo da Vinci
 

“It is not enough to know what we are against. We must also know what we are for.”

G. Edward Griffin

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by depreciation of their currency through its excessive quantity."
- Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.”  
- Voltaire 1729

"Gold is money. Everything else is credit."
- J. P. Morgan 1912

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.” 
- Alan Greenspan from an article written in 1966 entitled “Gold and Economic Freedom”

“I view gold as the primary global currency. It is the only currency, along with silver, that does not require a counterparty signature.” Alan Greenspan

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." 
Benjamin Franklin
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. 
- Abraham Lincoln
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton
 
“The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin air can provide sustainable economic growth has delivered this crisis to us. Instead of economic growth and stable prices, (The Fed) has given us a system of government and finance that now threatens the world financial and political institutions. Pursuing the same policy of excessive spending, debt expansion and monetary inflation can only compound the problems that prevent the required corrections. Doubling the money supply didn’t work, quadrupling it won’t work either. Buying up the bad debt of privileged institutions and dumping worthless assets on the American people is morally wrong and economically futile.”
- Representative from Texas Ron Paul questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free."
- Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“But let us be very clear, you can’t abolish poverty by printing paper and you can’t solve the world’s enormous debt problem by adding to it.  These debts will never be repaid with normal money, not today and not tomorrow – never!”
- Anonymous

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."  
- Cicero - 55 BC (with internet additions)

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic."
- Benjamin Franklin 

 “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” 
- Thomas Jefferson

"When there is no fear of risk, the risk of failure now has foundation." Trader Garrett

"Let us return to the freedoms the constitution guaranteed us, the history of gold which financially guide us and the genius of common sense." 
- Trader Garrett - "Breakpoint"

"Trading in time frame context provides positive price performance, not promises or pipe dreams." Trader Garrett

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