Washington’s Greatest Trial

Perhaps the most gloomy, discouraging period of the American Revolution was when General Washington’s army was in Winter Quarters at Valley Forge. He had fewer than 10,000 men. Soldiers were thinly clad, some half naked, others with no clothing but tattered blankets wrapped around them. “So many were sick as the result of privation,” writes one commentator, “so many were without coats, blankets, hats, or shoes that one wonders how the army held together at all.” Critical and desperate as were these conditions, a greater trial and sorrow, I surmise, came to Washington when some of his friends such as John Adams and Richard Henry Lee turned against him; when General Gates insulted him by sending reports direct to Congress instead of to Washington, his superior officer. As carrion hawks hover around dying creatures, so in Washington’s dire calamity came men to seek to crush him—men who formed what has been called the “Conway Cabal,” a contemptible attempt to dishonor Washington and to supplant him by a self-asserting, arrogant schemer. This internal discord, and such disloyalty from one-time friends were more crushing than were the attacks of the opposing army.

Source: President David O. McKay
General Conference, October 1939

Topics: America, History; War, Revolutionary War

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.

Source: Saul Landau
comment made in a radio interview October 1995

Topics: Taxes

I consider the government of the United States [the federal government] as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion [the First Amendment], but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States [the Tenth Amendment]. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General [federal] Government. It must then rest with the States.

Source: Thomas Jefferson
Memoir, Vol. IV, pp. 103-104, to Samuel Miller on January 23, 1808.

Topics: Freedom, Religious; US Constitution, Amendments

If Congress has the right [it doesn’t] to issue paper money [currency], it was given to them to be used by...[the government] and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Source: President Andrew Jackson, Vetoed Bank Bill of 1836

Topics: Economics; Government, Limited

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

Source: Sen. Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR)

Topics: Economics

It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Source: Henry Ford

Topics: Economics

The regional Federal Reserve banks are not government agencies. ...but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations.

Source: Lewis vs. United States, 680 F. 2d 1239 9th Circuit 1982

Topics: Economics

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

Source: Congressman Louis T. McFadden
in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

Topics: Economics

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are the United States government’s institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign swindlers.

Source: Louis T. McFadden
Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (12 years)
June 10, 1932 - Congressional Record 12595-12603

Topics: Economics

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