Forget Quote by Margaret Thatcher

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State…

— Margaret Thatcher

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

— Abraham Lincoln

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is…

— Carl Menger

The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first…

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

— William Beveridge

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

— Bob Casey, Jr

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because…

— Ezra Pound

Politics is not about money.

— Paul Wellstone

The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do…

— Frederic Bastiat

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

— Margaret Thatcher