Quote by Mark Goodwin

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil…

— Thomas Jefferson

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 money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

— Thomas Jefferson

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

— Walter E. Williams

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Peter Schiff

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes…

— Thomas Jefferson

Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door…

— George Washington

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it…

— Garet Garrett

“As to the inventions of printing and of paper, we generally consider these in the wrong oredr, attributing too much importnace to printing and…

— Norbert Wiener