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“Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.”

Money Business Thousand Ten Fellows Currency Inflation

Author:Kin Hubbard

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

Long Law Money Issues Economics Alternatives Currency Taxation

Author:Alan Greenspan

“American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.”

Years Long Running Sound Money Paper Standards Years Ago Economics Gold Feds Steady Decline Currency Banking Deposits Gold Standard

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.”

Nations Money Economy Weak Currency Glitter

Author:Ross Perot

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”

Giving Kind Money Vanity Currency Flattery

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.”

“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 system that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have more billionaires than ever before.”

“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.”

“There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.”

Ideas Real Wisdom Three Decision Money Knowledge Impossible Paper Newspapers This Day Substitutes Exposed Currency

Author:Eli Broad

“Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.”

Ifs World Believe Mean Soul Use Money Seeing Property Currency Seeing Is Believing American Success

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“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 of living is going down today. It's going down and the middle class is hurting because of the monetary policy. When you destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.”

Men Mind Home Turns Money Cities Teach Worst Mankind Grew Deeds Currency

Author:Sophocles