Monetary System Quotes
20 quotes by 13 authors
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We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the…
— Ron Paul
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Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened,…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America,…
— Murray Rothbard
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It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.
— Henry Ford
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.
— Martin Wolf
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War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going…
— Jacque Fresco
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If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the…
— Jacque Fresco
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People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,…
— Jacque Fresco
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The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is…
— G. Edward Griffin
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The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to…
— Milton Friedman
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If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a…
— Jason Mraz
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What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
— Ludwig von Mises
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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
— Jacque Fresco
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A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those…
— James Rickards
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would…
— Henry Ford
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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.
— Ron Paul
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What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system…
— Ron Paul
Who Wrote These Monetary System Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 20 Monetary System Quotes as follows: