American Quote by Murray Rothbard

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are…

— Murray Rothbard

I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that…

— Michael Hudson

I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was…

— Ernest Seyd

The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value…

— William Jennings Bryan

From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically,…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a…

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

— Alan Greenspan

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

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near…

— Michael Hudson

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took…

— Carl Andre

“Banks used to issue their own currencies. You can see these old banknotes in the Smithsonian. ‘First National Bank of South Bumfuck will remit…

— Neal Stephenson

The U.S. currency has been the most attractive currency to be in for very, very long periods of time.

— Steve Mnuchin