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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. -- Havelock Ellis
People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money. -- Eli Broad
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive. -- Harry Browne
We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history. -- John Exter
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. -- Thomas Jefferson
If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero. -- Robert Kiyosaki
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -- Andrew Jackson
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around? -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. -- Benjamin Franklin
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. -- Yanis Varoufakis
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied. -- Thomas Jefferson
New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money. -- Henry Hazlitt
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
Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos. -- Henry Hazlitt
From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression. -- Ludwig von Mises
Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from. -- Ron Paul
The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster. -- Richard Ebeling
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. -- David Ricardo
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
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money. -- Kabir Sehgal
The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend. -- Paula Fox
Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy. -- Ron Paul
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
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating. -- Alan Greenspan
I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was the emergence of paper money. There had been permissionary notes, exchanging money by writing it, but there was no duplicated form of guaranteeing an exchange. -- Marina Warner
Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it's too late. Too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to paper money and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you're one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing. -- Robert Ringer
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. -- Billy Wilder
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. -- Felix Dennis
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. -- Billy Wilder
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper. -- Colin Quinn
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted. -- Thomas Jefferson
A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices. -- Henry Hazlitt
Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them -- George Washington
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime. -- Troy Polamalu
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. -- Joey Bishop
I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15. -- Robert Pattinson
If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. -- Ron Chernow
I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money. -- David Boies
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice. -- George Washington
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? -- Dennis Miller
Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can. -- Jim Rogers
It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or more efficiently, saving more, investing more, and producing more. -- Henry Hazlitt
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. -- Charles Mackay
This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. -- Gloria Steinem
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money. -- Michael Enzi
Money could never have originated as paper. -- James Cook
Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers? -- Drake
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero. -- Voltaire
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. -- Thomas Jefferson
Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system. -- Mal Fletcher
Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins. -- Robbie Williams
Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water. -- Henry Hazlitt
Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money. -- Elsa Bakalar
I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper. -- John McLaughlin
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.And it remains on paper. -- Edwin Lefevre
You wanna blow money? Put it in a 'blow' category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper! -- Dave Ramsey
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. -- Alan Watts
Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come. -- Curtis Jackson
I got so much money I should start a bank. So much paper right in front of me it's hard to think. -- Wiz Khalifa
We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value. -- Dov Davidoff
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. -- Karl Marx
It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. -- Jeremy Irons
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. -- Sylvia Porter
If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money. -- Matt Kindt
Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music. -- Christofer Drew

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