Following are a few quotations from the writings of C. H. Douglas:
The more I see of Governments, the lower is my opinion of them and I am confident that what the world wants at the present time is a great deal less government, and not a great deal more. Now I want to get a further perfectly simple idea into your minds. And that is that Governments are your property, and you are not the property of Government.
-Security, Institutional and Personal, 1937.
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The aristocracy which grew out of the medieval chivalry may not have been flawless but a perusal of Magna Carta is sufficient to demonstrate that it was an effective barrier to the kind of racketeer we now elevate to power.
-"Coal, The Key" (P.E.P. Slogan), 1947.
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...the basic wealth of a nation is its intangibles. It is faith which moves mountains, and the decline of faith is perhaps the most noticeable change in the general population.
-The Great Betrayal.
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Since the pedigree of a policy is derived from a philosophy, it may be helpful to recall two propositions which, if not comprehensive, are essential to any Social Credit philosophy:
The first is that it is essential that the group shall have no conscriptive power over the individual, i.e., the individual must have the power to contract out of any group. The second is that maximum decentralisation of initiative is in the interests of human welfare.
-Social Credit in Alberta (1948).
Just as a maniac is irresponsible, so an irresponsible voter is a political maniac, and would know it if he were not. Power without responsibility is the broad way which leadeth to destruction and the World of Nightmare.
-Clear Your Minds.
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that 75 per cent of the ideas and inventions, to which mankind is indebted for such progress as has been so far achieved, can be directly or indirectly traced to persons who by some means were freed from the necessity of regular, and in the ordinary sense, economic employment, in spite of the fact that such persons have never been more than a small minority of the general population. Even where transcendent genius has been able to overcome the limitations of financial stringency, it is probable that the results achieved have been nothing like those which would have enriched the world had those barriers been non-existent.
-Social Credit.