Quotes About Authority

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

Money can buy many things. Even power.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

Magna carta. Master charga.

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.