Colony Quote by Benjamin Franklin

To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the…

— Murray Rothbard

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers…

— Charlie Pierce

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict…

— Aristotle

If the federal government can mandate what we have to spend our own money on, then the federal government can make us buy something…

— Luther Strange

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

— Bernard Baruch

If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant…

— Murray Rothbard

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called…

— Henry Hazlitt

The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of…

— Michal Kalecki

Many people in society are mastered by their money, unable to control their greed.

— Craig Williams

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all…

— John Currin

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the…

— Thomas Paine

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him,…

— Woodrow Wilson