Arms Quote by Denis Kearney

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

— Thomas Hobbes

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

— Charles Curtis

“In our hands is a placed power greater with their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring…

— Ralph Chaplin

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that…

— Ayn Rand

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

— Seneca the Younger

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

— George Santayana

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

— George Orwell

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers…

— William Shakespeare

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

— Virgil

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

— Ludwig von Mises

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

— Loretta Lynch

“Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another’s greatness is himself undone,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli