Bankers and banks Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By…

— Abraham Lincoln

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.

— Linda McQuaig

Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise…

— William Greider

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

— John Stossel

That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

— Kevin Hassett

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public…

— Joel Miller

“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law, disaster-proof property…

— Olawale Daniel

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

— Anonymous

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job…

— George W. Bush