Lysander Spooner Quotes

… the only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in their keeping their money in their own pockets, until they have assurances, perfectly satisfactory to themselves, that it will be used as they wish it to be used, for their benefit, and not for their injury

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I make money, money doesn't make me.

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

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

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

You can easily rebuild wealth, but you cannot create liberty when it has gone.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

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

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

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Money equals freedom.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.