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Quotes About Currency

Money is a needful and precious thing
~ Louisa May Alcott
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
~ Prince Philip
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
~ Lord Byron
Information about money is more important than money itself.
~ Walter Wriston
It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.
~ John Currin
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.
~ Nicholas Deak
The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.
~ Richard Ebeling
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
~ Daniel Webster
This bank-note world.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
~ Timothy Keller
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Money is the best rule of commerce.
~ William Petty
Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
~ Peter Schiff
Money itself isn't lost or made. It's simply transferred from one perception to another.
~ Michael Douglas
If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.
~ Josiah Stamp
Money is coined liberty.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
An honest money system is the only alternative.
~ Frederick Soddy
Gold is Money. That's it
~ J. P. Morgan
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
~ Robert Harris
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~ Havelock Ellis
Money has a fixed value. People can have unlimited value.
~ Ron Kaufman
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
~ Alan Greenspan
Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell