The Vulgar Trader

The government calmly goes on printing these scraps of paper because, if it stopped that would be the end of the government because once the printing press stopped, (and that is the prerequisite for the stabilization of the [currency]) the swindle would at once be brought to light. Believe me our misery will increase. The scoundrel will get by. The reason: because the State itself has become the biggest swindler and crook. A robber’s state!

—Adolf Hitler