Currency Quote by Milton Friedman

There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically…

— Milton Friedman

The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules,…

— Jamie Dimon

For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime.

— Brad Garlinghouse

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

— Abraham Lincoln

The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in…

— Hans F. Sennholz

I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

— Wolfgang Schauble

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

— David Ricardo

If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar…

— Robert W. Hemphill

Britain is not part of the single currency. That is a decision we have taken, a voluntary decision of this country, but as a…

— George Osborne

We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that…

— Adolf Hitler

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty,…

— Joschka Fischer