"It is a terrible situation when the Government,……" — Thomas A. Edison
"It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan."
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279 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
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