Dependence Quote by G. Edward Griffin Download Open image “Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.” — G. Edward Griffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dependence Financial Foundation Freedom Modern Money States
Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food,… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
“despite the absence of a real state monopoly on violence, early states were much more formidable structures than chiefdoms. And everywhere they appear, they… — David Christian Copy Share Image
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share
“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to protect, not to provide; for if the state is granted the power to provide for some, it must also be able to take from others, and that always leads to legalized plunder and loss of freedom.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share
The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks on this subject says: "It sprang from the panic of 1907, with its alarming epidemic of bank failures: the country was fed up once and for all with the anarchy of unstable private banking."23 Even the most naive… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Love is . . . Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Never depend on anyone else's strength but God's strength to help you through and nor expect from anyone except God to be with you… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share
Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him,… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share
The safest hands to entrust all things is in the hands of the Almighty God. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
