Administrators Quote by Elgin Groseclose

Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are…

— Peter Schiff

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying…

— Abraham Lincoln

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,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“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…

— Abraham Lincoln

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

— Murray Rothbard

When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good…

— Thomas Gresham

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use…

— Murray Rothbard

Currency regimes in the past were always destroyed by volatility. So sooner or later, people desire a currency that is stable.

— Porter Stansberry

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through…

— Abraham Lincoln

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

— John Maynard Keynes

The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of…

— Robert Gilpin

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't…

— Bernard von NotHaus