Thread by @CitizenBitcoin

Give me bitcoin, or give me death.

"Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us."

"Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity...

... of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions." #stayhumblestacksats

"In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion." #moneyforthepeople #separationofmoneyandstate

"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise." #cantilloneffect #hiddentax

",No one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them." #meritocracy

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." #defaultkeynesianism

"From the errors of other (monies), let us learn wisdom." #bitcoin