Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while government is admitted to money power. Since all national governments have, up to the present,… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and,… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share
Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to look to us, just so long must we remain the subjects of government and it is vain to follow this or that policy or party or ism in the hope of salvation. We can control government and our… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share
Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to find his… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
