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G. Edward Griffin
1931 • American • Author
27
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Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesThe Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.— G. Edward Griffin
I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.— G. Edward Griffin
We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.— G. Edward Griffin
Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.— G. Edward Griffin
When I did my research on this topic, I came to the startling conclusion that the Federal Reserve System does not need to be audited - it needs to be abolished.— G. Edward Griffin
The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.— G. Edward Griffin
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.— G. Edward Griffin
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.— G. Edward Griffin
An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.— G. Edward Griffin
This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.— G. Edward Griffin
The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.— G. Edward Griffin