Budgets Quote by E.C. Riegel

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

— Angela McGlowan

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

Money is economic power.

— Walter Bagehot

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

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that…

— Hannah Arendt

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

— Orrin Woodward

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be…

— Bertrand Russell

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than…

— Abraham Lincoln

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

— Richard J. Needham

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

— Milton Friedman

No, money is power.

— Brian Schweitzer

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy