Quotes About Dollar

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money. Do you understand? He was telling us an essential truth. Namely, that money doesn't grow on trees. This is what made our country great, Peter. Now George Washington's picture is on every dollar bill. There is an important lesson to be learned from all this.

That "temporary" arrangement essentially remains in place fifty years later. The world has been operating without an agreed monetary standard, with varying degrees of "floating" and "fixing," and with the dollar still the global reserve currency.