Mark David Ledbetter

“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and government have a symbiotic relationship that is often mediated by war. Central banking gives government a way to tap the productive power of the private sector and borrow from the future without the need to rely overmuch on unpopular tax increases. Government gives central banking the extreme profits that derive from immense borrowing to finance wars and other government projects.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture

“Any people anywhere have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Later, when such rising-up and shaking-off threatened his own Hamiltonian agenda, Lincoln’s thinking would change.”
― Mark David Ledbetter, America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture