Ayn Rand Quotes

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.

It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

When the Federal Government undertakes to go into commercial business it must at once set up the organization and administration of that business, and it immediately finds itself in a labyrinth, every alley of which leads to the destruction of self government.

To strengthen a weak government, we must reduce its power.

In a sense, the police power is but another name for the power of government.

Return to specie payment … at the earliest period compatible with due regard to all interests concerned.

They who have nothing to loose, are generally of the Party for Paper Money; this ought to be a strong Prejudice against it, with sober thinking Men.

The Power the Magistrat [head of government] has to alter the Money in its Denomination or Fineness, takes away the chief Quality for which Silver was made Money

Government has always driven growth.

Shall we have in this country legal-tender paper issued by the Government, or shall the people depend upon banking corporations for their circulating medium! Shall the Government or the banking corporations control the volume of the currency?

We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.

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

There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.

'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote to pubic purposes should be under the control of government, is wholly alien to the basic principles of a free society.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.