Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 383 Money quotesMoney QuotesMoney Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.~ Voltaire Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value -- zero.~ Voltaire The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.~ Ludwig von Mises There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final or total catastrophe of the currency system involved.~ Ludwig von Mises Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.~ Ludwig von Mises The banks -- commercial banks and the Federal Reserve -- create all the money of this nation and its people pay interest on every dollar of that newly created money. Which means that private banks exercise unconstitutionally, immorally, and ridiculously the power to tax the people. For every newly created dollar dilutes to some extent the value of every other dollar already in circulation.~ Jerry Voorhis When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money...~ W. Allen Wallis We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.~ James Paul Warburg Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.~ George Washington Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.~ George Washington Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.~ George Washington He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.~ Daniel Webster We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.~ Daniel Webster Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.~ Daniel Webster The banks do create money. They have been doing it for a long time, but they didn't realise it, and they did not admit it. Very few did. You will find it in all sorts of documents, financial textbooks, etc. But in the intervening years, and we must be perfectly frank about these things, there has been a development of thought, until today I doubt very much whether you would get many prominent bankers to attempt to deny that banks create it.~ H. W. White All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.~ Walter E. Williams If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.~ Woodrow Wilson We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world--no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.~ Woodrow Wilson Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.~ Woodrow Wilson A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.~ Woodrow Wilson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print