The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems.… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who… — Reginald McKenna Copy Share Image
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer,… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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