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
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is… — Frank Herbert 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
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
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 you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose… — Jacque Fresco 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
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Money, an invention in which its creators decide who gets what amount of the finite pie. A person could work miracles for… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . .… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
