Commodity Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

— Milton Friedman

I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money.

— Stephen Colbert

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

— Peter Schiff

Money is not something you just print. It must be backed by something, either good economy or gold.

— Mahathir Mohamad

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

— Karl Marx

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all…

— John Currin

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

— Thomas Jefferson

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

— Peter Schiff

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

— Peter Schiff

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

— George Osborne

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

— Edmund Burke