Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 383 Money quotesMoney QuotesMoney Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.~ Bo Diddley For you see, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.~ Benjamin Disraeli It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.~ W. E. B. Du Bois Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.~ Will Durant Hamilton's whole monetary policy is based on unconstitutional grounds and unsound reasoning, and fraudulent statements. His policies were fought through the whole public career of Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Randolph and many another truly great lovers of Republican Government. His policies have proved to be more destructive of our independent and democratic form of government than the old subjugation of the Colonies by Great Britain. The deliberations in Congress over Hamilton's Bank Bill, and the opinions of members of The Cabinet show the intensity of feeling between the private money interests and those supporting the Constitution. History records that the “money changers” have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.~ Olive Cushing Dwinell That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.~ Marriner Stoddard Eccles People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.~ Thomas A. Edison 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.~ Thomas A. Edison Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.~ Sam Ewing The actual process of money creation takes place in commercial banks. As noted earlier, demand liabilities of commercial banks are money.~ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU.~ Federal Reserve Bank of New York Because of 'fractional' reserve system, banks, as a whole, can expand our money supply several times, by making loans and investments.~ Federal Reserve Bank of New York Without the confidence factor, many believe a paper money system is liable to collapse eventually.~ Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The decrease in purchasing power incurred by holders of money due to inflation imparts gains to the issuers of money...~ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.~ Edwin Feulner There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.~ Richard Feynman Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.~ Justice Stephen J. Field Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess.~ Irving Fisher It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.~ Henry Ford Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print