Currency Value Quotes

From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

it is obvious that there is only wanting to the fiscal prosperity of the Government the restoration of an uniform medium of exchange … it is essential that the nation should possess a currency of equal value, credit, and use wherever it may circulate. The Constitution has entrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pocket has been devalued .

Of all the instrumentalities which have been conceived by the mind of man for transferring the bread which one man earns to another man who does not earn it, I believe the gold standard is the greatest.

A dollar approaches honesty as its purchasing power approaches stability.

The gold dollar shall be the standard unit of value. For all forms of money issued or coined in the United States, it shall be maintained at a parity with this standard.

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.

The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.

All money is a matter of belief.

What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.

No great nation that ever went off the gold standard ever remained great.

We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark. Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.

The problem with money issued by any government is that its only value is what those in charge decree.