Government Quote by Murray Rothbard

Money could never have originated as paper.

— James Cook

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

— Ron Paul

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

— Walter E. Williams

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that…

— David Ricardo

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it.…

— Murray Rothbard

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

— Mahathir Mohamad

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

— Stephen Colbert

As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some sort of…

— Murray Rothbard

I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth…

— Lloyd Blankfein

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