Amount Quote by David Ricardo

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of…

— David Ricardo

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply of other…

— Ludwig von Mises

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

— William Petty

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

— Satish Kumar

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in…

— Alfred Marshall

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies…

— Hans F. Sennholz

But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by…

— Alexander Hamilton

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power…

— Alfred Marshall

“A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over time because…

— Coreen T. Sol