George Howard Earle, Jr. Quotes

George H. Earle Jr. was a Philadelphia lawyer and "financial diplomat" who was highly sought after to save ailing corporations from financial ruin. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. July 1856 – 19. February 1928
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“Defense of freedom requires no apology.”

From Does Price Fixing Destroy Liberty? (1920) by George H. Earle, Jr.

George Howard Earle, Jr. Quotes

“Equality of treatment is the chief purpose for which the Government exists … Liberty is but an equality of justice.”

From Hearing Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce: United States Senate Sixty-second Congress pursuant to S. Res. 98 &c. (6 December 1911:803)

“I can suggest no remedy, but would prefer present evils to those resulting from the creation of too centralized a power; and the answer, to my mind, is obvious. The true remedy must be found, not in placing our dependence upon the discretion of any one, but of every one,—that is, again, upon liberty, rather than upon power and restraint.”

Speaking out against a central bank after the Panic of 1907. From "A Central Bank as a Menace to Liberty," by George H. Earle, Jr. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. XXXI No. 2: Lessons of the Financial Crisis, March 1908.

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