Complicated Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Alan Greenspan

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in…

— Cynthia McKinney

But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have…

— Barack Obama

Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Will the adoption of this new plan pay our debts! This, Sir, is a plain question. It is inferred, that our grievances are to…

— Patrick Henry

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

— Thomas Jefferson

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary…

— Charles August Lindbergh

If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a…

— Walter Wriston

The problem with money issued by any government is that its only value is what those in charge decree.

— Sandi Toksvig

If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to…

— John Maynard Keynes

“This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs this bill, the invisible government of the…

— Charles A. Lindbergh Sr

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when…

— Ludwig von Mises