Coins Quote by Joseph Conrad

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required…

— Martin Jacques

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

— Gregory David Roberts

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

— John Stossel

Nations are not built by governments alone. The government can at best be a facilitator, and a trigger for society's innate entrepreneurial and creative…

— Ram Nath Kovind

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

— Helmut Kohl

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

— Anonymous

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

— Vaclav Klaus

What kind of country just recycles its old money, reminisces about what used to be, and doesn't know how to weld, to machine, to…

— Homer Hickam

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

— Ronald Reagan

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

— Marquis de Custine