Ezra Pound America Quotations

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

America is a lunatic asylum.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.