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Government Quotes by 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 and operate their…
- 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…
- When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat…
- Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
- 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,…
- Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also…
- When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see…
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