Josiah Stamp Quotes

• Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Josiah Stamp

  Money, Liberty, Would Be

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• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Integrity, Responsibility, Community

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• The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

  Josiah Stamp

  Hands, Historical, Bankers

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• The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

  Josiah Stamp

  Government, Roots, Mind

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• If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.

  Josiah Stamp

  Issues, Cost, Slavery

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• Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

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• The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Banking, Modern

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• Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Banking, Credit

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• A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

  Josiah Stamp

  Glasses, Looks, Half

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• But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Cost, Banking

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• The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

  Josiah Stamp

  Roots, Government, Village

  Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

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• The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

  Josiah Stamp

  Links, May, Statistics

  Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

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• Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

  Josiah Stamp

  Banking, Usury, Sin

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