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The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The value of money comes from the private sector in the form of price for product, services rendered, what people are willing to pay for something they want or need. That's where value happens. Government has nothing to do with that.

— Rush Limbaugh

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

— Jesse Ventura

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

— Ronald Reagan

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

— John Ralston Saul

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

Money is a mechanism for control.

— David Korten

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

— George W. Bush

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

— John Burroughs

No, money is power.

— Brian Schweitzer

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

— H. L. Mencken

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