Josiah Stamp

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.