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Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

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

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

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.