Currency Quotes

• The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Distribution Of Wealth, Way

  "Lenin's Lesson for Frequent Fliers" by Matthew C. Klein, www.bloomberg.com. September 26, 2013.

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• 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.

  Sophocles

  Money, Home, Men

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• Information is the hardest currency.

  Andrew Vachss

  Information, Hardest

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

  Daniel Webster

  Evil, Political, Greatest Political

  Daniel Webster (1832). “Mr. Webster's Speeches in the Senate Upon the Question of Renewing the Charter of the Bank of the United States”, p.5

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• Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

  Erica Jong

  Shoes, Want, Remember

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• Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

  Grover Cleveland

  Sound, Substitutes

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• There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Gold, Enough, Circulation

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• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, Law

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.124, 北戴河出版

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• There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Economics, Central Banking

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 6 (1919).

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• Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

  James Cook

  Betrayal, Chaos, Underestimate

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• Power: a currency that never went out of style.

  Dan Simmons

  Power, Style

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.124, Spectra

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• Few policies are more calculated to destroy the existing basis of a free society than the debauching of its currency. And few tasks, if any, are more important to the champion of freedom than creation of a sound monetary system.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Champion, Important, Sound

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Issues, People

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• Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Issues

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• When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has a powerful influence on interest rates and the price of government bonds. And that's why central banks long have tried to suppress the price of gold. Gold is the ticket out of the central banking system, the escape from coercive central bank and government power.

  James Rickards

  Powerful, Fighting, Government

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• Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

  Richard Florida

  Ideas, Economy

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• Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Trust is the ultimate human currency.

  Bill McDermott

  Humans, Ultimate

  "CEO Speaker Series: Technology and Global Growth: A Conversation with Bill McDermott, Co-Chief Executive Officer, SAP". Interview with Peter Cook, www.cfr.org. April 12, 2012.

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• There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

  Winston Churchill

  Spheres, Appearance, Superficial

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• It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Running, Philosophy, Political

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• Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

  Andrew Lakey

  Writing, Void, Language

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

  Ross Perot

  Money, Glitter, Economy

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

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Law, Issues

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• The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

  David Wessel

  Fall, Order, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Order, Investing

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