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Quotes About Fiat

Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods - government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don't win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.
~ Milton Friedman
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
~ Ludwig von Mises
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
~ Alan Greenspan
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.
~ Murray Rothbard
Many hold that by floating the dollar, Nixon converted the U.S. currency into pure "fiat money"—mere pieces of paper, intrinsically worthless, that were treated as money only because the United States government insisted that they should be.
~ David Graeber
The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
I know Fiat plans to start manufacturing cars in Iran. This is wrong.
~ Ehud Barak
The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
~ Lapo Elkann
I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!
~ Richard Hammond
The essence of authority, as he saw, was Law—that is, fiat—that is, effective communication running one way only. The essence of a libertarian system, as he also saw, was Contract—that is, mutual agreement—that is, effective communication running both ways. (Redundance of control is the technical cybernetic phrase.)
~ Robert Anton Wilson
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.
~ Milton Friedman
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~ Don Tapscott
The Italians are responsible for Fiat, Ferrari, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Maserati and Pagani. It wouldn't seem so unfair if they weren't also really good at food, art and fashion. Selfish. That's what it is, it's selfish.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690.
~ Murray Rothbard
My Fiat Multipla is bright green - it looks like a frog. I look like a monkey, so between the two of us, we are a hideous prospect. It's the ugliest car on the road but the most practical, and I would live and die by it.
~ Dominic Holland
The worst car I've ever had was a Fiat X19.
~ Ant Anstead
I like fast cars. I used to be a car buff before I went to Fiat.
~ Sergio Marchionne
You can't just magically create subsides through executive fiat.
~ Ron DeSantis
I think fiat currencies will become digital.
~ Tyler Winklevoss
I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime.
~ Brad Garlinghouse
There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this.
~ Sergio Marchionne
Dixitque Deus: fiat lux. Et facta est lux. Translated by himself into his personal Bombay "Wulgate": And God said, Cheap Italian motor car, beauty soap of the film star. And there was Lux. Please, Daddy, why did God want a small Fiat and a bar of soap, and also please, why did he get the soap only? Why couldn't he make the car? And why not a better car, Daddy? He could've asked for a Jesus Chrysler, no?
~ Salman Rushdie