Currency Quote by Bruce H. Lipton

“It was not always the case, of course, that navies paid for themselves. In wartime, costs often exceeded revenues, and those deficits grew over…

— Max Boot

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a…

— Murray Rothbard

An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly…

— G. Edward Griffin

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the…

— Benjamin Franklin

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of…

— Benjamin Franklin

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert…

— G. Edward Griffin

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

“The British were highly skilled counterfeiters, and one of their favorite ways to attack the Americans was by depreciating colonial currency.”

— Brian Kilmeade

“In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium…

— David Graeber

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

— Walter E. Williams