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
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
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
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up… — Salmon P. Chase 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
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
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — Ludwig von Mises 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
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
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
The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the… — Robert Gilpin 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
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is… — Milton Friedman 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 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
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
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image