"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!"
— Money

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812). Called "an apocryphal statement" by Nicholls, B. (2024). The communist empty signifier: the Australian League of Rights and the Voice to Parliament referendum. Continuum, 38(6), 915–933. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2441311. No primary source for this is known and the earliest known attribution is in 1935 (Money Creators, Gertrude M. Coogan). Before that, "Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws" was sa