Economic Control Quotes

Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the laws.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies, and at the end of this year there will not be a Jew left in Germany. Neither the French, nor the Americans, nor the English are responsible for the difficulties in our relations with Paris, London, or Washington. Those responsible are the Jews. We will give similar advice to Rumania, Hungary, etc.... Germany will seek to form a bloc of anti-Semitic States, as she would not be able to treat as friends the States in which the Jews, either through their economic activity or through their high positions, could exercise any kind of influence.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy.

Big corporations are all to be nationalized.

The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine -- the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit.

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.