American people Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control…

— Anonymous

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and…

— John Maynard Keynes

When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.

— Ron Paul

What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary…

— Ron Paul

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

— Herbert Hoover

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

— George Bernard Shaw

We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard…

— Ron Paul

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

— Jack Kemp

If the world's using bitcoin, governments won't be able to fund wars through inflation like they do today.

— Roger Ver

If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new…

— Adam Davidson

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

— Murray Rothbard