Financial Sovereignty Quotes

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

The United States must take into its own hands the control of the gold value of the dollar.

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on the Bank of England. Ben Franklin said that one of the main reasons America revolted was to get away from the Bank of England, the mother of all central banks - the most pernicious and insidious of all.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Money is coined liberty.

Through bitcoin, the Argentines are developing an economy which doesn't require the bankers.

We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark. Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.

Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people. It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.

National sovereignty should be supported by financial independence. The only power that will propel us to this goal is the economy. No matter how mighty they are, political and military victories cannot endure unless they are crowned by economic triumphs.

I feel money is power in certain senses. A lot of women out there are just givin' it away. And then there are the women that're selling their bodies. But they chose to do that. But this is how they make their money. And I don't see anything wrong with that.

The power of the purse always prevails.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.

China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

We sell our sovereignty down the river when we become a debtor nation.

For many countries, monetary sovereignty is nothing more than an unattainable ideal.

Money wants no followers.

A country does not go bankrupt.

I have four priorities. Give back to the French their sovereignty over the French territory, their sovereignty over the currency, their sovereignty over the economy and the law.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.