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Money Quotes by Murray Rothbard
- In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money…
- If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier,…
- It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing…
- Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help…
- At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power…
- Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best…
- Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such…
- All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of…
- Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all…
- It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like…
- Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of…
- I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold,…
More Money Quotes
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen