Money Quote by David Green

“Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Money is a means of exchange.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Money is not coins and banknotes. Money is anything that people are willing to use in order to represent systematically the value of other…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money,…

— Kabir Sehgal

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that…

— Lawrence Reed

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for…

— Murray Rothbard

“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

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

— Carl Andre

“Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that…

— Clifford D. Simak

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

“Money is a tool of control invented by the Archons and implemented by your banking families.”

— Sol Luckman