Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson 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
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
What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. — Ludwig von Mises 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
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 strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but… — Daniel Webster 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
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
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
During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return… — Jacque Fresco 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
From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or,… — Jacob G. Hornberger 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
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
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
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last.… — Ron Paul 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — 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
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