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“Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.”

People Government Currency Bitcoin

Author:Wences Casares

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

Ifs Government Order Investing Betray Currency Inflation Procedures Creditors Devalue

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896

“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.”

Mean Government Would Be Economic Policy Aspect Determined Currency

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.”