ChatGPT: The quote you're thinking of is often attributed to Henry David Thoreau, who said:
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
This means that many people focus on addressing the surface-level symptoms of a problem (the branches) rather than tackling the underlying cause (the root). Thoreau’s point is that true change or resolution comes only when we address the core issues rather than just the visible effects.
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I am convinced that USURY is the ROOT of ALL EVIL.
USURY is the mechanism of our enslavement.
USURY is why we are TAX SLAVES
USURY is why we are DEBT SLAVES
USURY is the mechanism by which “the wealth” is “transferred” from the working poor, and into the hands of “the rich” or “the wealthy”
“All wealth is derived from labor”
~ Adam Smith, paraphrased
ChatGPT: The quote you're referencing is close to Adam Smith’s ideas in The Wealth of Nations, though it may not be a direct quote. Smith argued that labor is a primary source of value, stating:
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things."
This means that labor is foundational to creating wealth, as it’s through human work that resources are transformed into valuable goods and services. Smith emphasized that the value of any commodity largely depends on the amount of labor invested in producing it.
Our entire money system is built on USURY.
So let me give you my own two personal definitions of USURY…
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Usury is the charging of money, for the use of money.
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Usury is the charging of any interest at all.
And until USURY is addressed, we will never be “free”
The Federal Reserve Note is in the final stages of life,
And the reason it failed, is the same reason EVERY usury scheme fails
Trump is just one man.
We don’t have much time to enact the monetary reforms we should make
I nominate Ron Paul for the job
Here in lies the double edged sword of the peoples right to contract. Originally, Americans understood what the founders had given them, namely the sovereign rights of kings. What was the sovereign right of a king? To create law. The founders literally gave us the sovereignty of kings. What this meant was we the people had the ability to create our own law for our own houses in our own courts of record. Here was the difference though... everyone had this ability and when your sovereign law encroached on mine, we needed to settle our disputes with a jury of our peers. Quick fact: original common law grand juries were 25 from the peerage and not 24... Why do you think?
All of this to say, we the people have the right to contract with anyone else no matter how one sided or even immoral it may seem to you. I respectfully disagree with the root being usury and think it to be more related to the fact that the corporate government has been administering our estates (all we own in law, including our bodies) by calling us persons (or infants) and not people. An infant cannot hold title until they have come of age and claimed their estate.
The roots are, in my opinion, the unlawful "acts" enacted by the government from its inception against the people. Two major ones being the 14th and the 16th amendments. I do agree that money as debt is a major one as well.