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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from the defects of the Constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nation, of coin, credit and circulation." -- b. A.D. 1735 John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America.
"No system or machinery or economic doctrine or theory stands on its own two feet: it is invariably built on a metaphysical foundation,
that is to say, upon man's basic outlook on life, its meaning and its
purpose. I have talked about the religion of economics, the idol
worship of material possessions, the consumption and the so-called
standard of living, and the fateful propensity that rejoices in the
fact that 'what were luxuries to our fathers have become necessities
for us.' -- A.D. 1973 from the book "Small is Beautiful" by E.F. Schumacher, b. 1911 - d. 1977.