Currency Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Currency Inspirational Portraits Stamps Statutes
“In this sense, the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Look at a coin from your pocket. On one side is "heads" - the symbol of the political authority which minted the coin; on… — Keith Hart Copy Share Image
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“ Money Facts The Lira was the basic unit of Italian currency from 1861, when Ital was unified, to 2002. That year, Italy adopted… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange. — Nana Visitor Copy Share Image
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. — Dolley Madison Copy Share Image
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go… — Peter Schiff Copy Share
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, "Wait a minute. This has gone bad." The answer is, "Well, that wine isn't for drinking; that's for trading." These $100 bills aren't meant… — Michael Hudson Copy Share
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . .you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . .I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if… — Sam Zell Copy Share