William Jennings Bryan Quotes

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

The Power the Magistrat [head of government] has to alter the Money in its Denomination or Fineness, takes away the chief Quality for which Silver was made Money

The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency... I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.

We would treat him pretty ugly down here in Texas. Printing more money is in my opinion, treason.

It is said that our paper [money] is as good as silver, because we may have silver for it at the bank where it issues. This is not true. One, two, or three persons might have it; but a general application would soon exhaust their vaults, and leave a ruinous proportion of their paper in its intrinsic worthless form.

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

Forget quantitative easing - I've always thought the idea of injecting virtual money into the system is an accident waiting to happen.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

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

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.