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Monetary Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
- Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the…
- No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an…
- The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin…
- Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation…
- Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation…
- The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
- By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,…
- Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
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