Currency Issue Quotes

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency.

I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money.

While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.

The colonies started to issue their own money and stopped using the Bank of England, which was what precipitated the war because you can't have your own currency because then you're out of our control.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

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.

The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

The Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company will pay on demand to bearer Three Dollars.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.