E.C. Riegel

Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of…

— E.C. Riegel

To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's…

— E.C. Riegel

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

— E.C. Riegel

As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to…

— E.C. Riegel

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its…

— E.C. Riegel

Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer…

— E.C. Riegel

Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities…

— E.C. Riegel

The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this…

— E.C. Riegel

As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to…

— E.C. Riegel

When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for…

— E.C. Riegel

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute…

— E.C. Riegel

If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control…

— E.C. Riegel