Famous Quotes on Money
Author: Regis Sauger
Famous Quotes on Money
"It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 1779. ME 4:298, Papers 2:298
"Historically, the United States has been a hard money country. Only [since 1913] has the United States operated on a fiat money system. During this period, paper money has depreciated over 87%. During the preceding 140 year period, the hard currency of the United States had actually maintained its value. Wholesale prices in 1913 ... were the same as in 1787." -- Kenneth Gerbino, former chairman of the American Economic Council
"We make money the old fashioned way. We print it." -- Art Rolnick, former Chief Economist, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
"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, in a letter to J. Bowen, Rhode Island, Jan. 9, 1787
"Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money." -- Daniel Webster"
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln, just after the passage of the National Banking Act of 1863
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1787
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero." -- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- Thomas Jefferson in 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin
The value of paper money is precisely the value of a politician's promise, as high or low as you put that; the value of gold is protected by the inability of politicians to manufacture it. -- Sir William Rees-Mogg
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
"The creation of money exclusively as debt is the critical, destabilizing flaw in the American Economy". -- Author Theodore R. Thoren explains The Truth In Money Book.
"The decrease in purchasing power incurred by holders of money due to inflation imparts gains to the issuers of money ... ." -- St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank in "Review", Nov. 1975
"You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Without the confidence factor, many believe a paper money system is liable to collapse eventually." -- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in "Gold"
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." -- President James A. Garfield
"Those who create and issue money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." -- Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of Exchequer, England
"If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." -- Andrew Jackson
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled and the pubic debt should be reduced. The arrogance of public officialdom should be tempered and controlled. And the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest we become bankrupt." -- Cicero, 63 B.C.
"Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been scientifically determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm. A 5% devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but also to all that is left over from previous years. At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents. At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on. By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years. By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%. The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime." -- G. Edward Griffin, historian and author of "The Creature From Jekyll Island"
"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose ... If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer." -- John Maynard Keynes, economist and author of "The Economic
Consequences Of The Peace" (1920)
"About all a Federal Reserve note can legally do is wipe out one debt and replace it with itself, another debt, a note that promises nothing. If anything's been paid, the payment occurs only in the minds of the parties ...." -- Tupper Saucy, author of "The Miracle On Main Street"
"... the gold standard is incompatible with chronic deficit spending (the hallmark of the welfare state)." -- Greenspan, Alan; "Gold and Economic Freedom", Rand, Ayn; Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal; Signet Books, 1967; pp96-101. See full text in FAME's FedWatch section http://www.fame.org/.
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Regis Sauger is a Licensed Mortgage Broker in Florida. He has written numerous aritlces on consumer credit. He has over 25,000 readers of his articles.
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Homework help “Smoking”?
I am writeing a paper on Smoking. Lol the only thing is about this paper is that i am for it. Although this is a bad thing to be for i have my reasons. I have to have a 3 quotes in the paper….. what a bummer. I have to have three off the internet and one from a book. With a reffrence ect. Cloud anyone tell me of a book from some one famous that has a quote thats for Smoking. PLEASE HELP I CANT FIND ANYTHING. Thanks John
Camel regulars achieved the zenith of their popularity through personalities such as news broadcaster
********Edward R. Murrow, **********
who smoked up to four packs of Camel regulars per day, in effect using a Camel cigarette as his trademark.
When he did commercials on TV he would say “I’d walk a mile for a camel cigarette.”
I** don’t like using wikipedia *******
but I can’t find it elsewhere. This is one subject I know is accurate . In my gereration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette)
Maybe that will help.
PS
He died from lung cancer.
can you give some short and famous quotes on no smoking?
“But when I don’t smoke I scarcely feel as if I’m living. I don’t feel as if I’m living unless I’m killing myself.”
Russell Hoban
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
James I of England
“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”
Jean Cocteau
“Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you — don’t do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don’t do it. Don’t you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don’t touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
Famous quotes fun to guess?
all right people match the quote to the person
” Die, I think not dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a thing to happen.”
” Now that I’m gone I tell you, don’t smoke. Whatever you do just don’t smoke. If I could give up that smoking we wouldn’t be talking about any cancer. I’m convinced of that.”
” Well one things for sure. I wouldn’t be remembered for free willy. Or maybe I will.
” Your children shouldn’t have to fear you to respect you.”
” Theirs nothing in life that you can’t do. The day you quit looking for things to do is the day you die.”
” I can’t die like this. Tell them I said something.”
( If asked if he wanted a cig before being shot by a firing squad this is from a not well known independent film) No thanks. I’m trying to quit.
” Connie I think I see why your mean to Meg. See you developed earily and started giving hand jobs when you were fourteen, By the time your 19 your body will be so used up an look a paper bag that no-one will want you not even your stepfather. Am I in the ball park?”
and this is funny why
Do you love it when famous people say stupid things?
Ok, so I found these quotes that famous people said and I couldn’t help but share them…
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: ‘I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,’ –Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
If you ever feel a little bit stupid, just dig this up and read it again; you’ll begin to think you’re a genius.
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama’s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
‘Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.’
–Mariah Carey
‘Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life,’ –Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .
‘I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,’ –Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
‘Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,’
–Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
‘Half this game is ninety percent mental.’ –Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
‘It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.’ –Al Gore, Vice President
‘I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.’ –Dan Quayle
‘We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?’ –Lee Iacocca
‘The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.’
–Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
‘We don’t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.’ –Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
‘Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.’
–Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
‘Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.’ –Keppel Enderbery
‘If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.’ –Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
“It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago”
- Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.”
- Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel
Alicia Silverstone – “I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.”
Bob Dole – “The internet is a great way to get on the net. Life is very important to Americans.”
George W. Bush – “More and more of our imports are coming from overseas.”
Bill Clinton – “You know the one thing that’s wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.”
Raquel Welch – “I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.”
Mayor David Dinkins – “I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.”
Dan Quale – “I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.”
Michael Jackson – “Me and Janet really are two different people.”
Doug Collins – “Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, the almost always win.”
Dick Cavett – “If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.”
Casey Stengel – “The team has come along slow but fast.”
Janet Barber – “I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.”
Joe Theisman – “The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
Celine Dion – “To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from God.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme – “In an action film you act the action, in a drama film you act in the drama.”
Donald Trump – “Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.”
Al Gore – “I invented the internet.”
Thought I would post these so you could all laugh as much as did! Do you know any other dumb quotes by famous people?
Don’t you love it when famous people say dumb things?
There’s a classic quote that applies here from Mark Twain, he said, “It’s better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to open one’s own mouth and remove all doubt.”
What are some famous like stop smoking or using tobacco quotes that are catchy?
Winston Tastes Good, Like a Carcinogen Should
What’s So Lucky about Lucky Strike?
The Marlboro Man Died of Lung Cancer
Don’t make an ash of yourself.
SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking is hazardous to your health.
Cough for Phillip Morris
“If you can’t stop smoking, lung cancer will.”
Have another smoke and choke.
Smoking will take your breath away forever!
Your smoking freedom ends where my nose begins.
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning – a portrait on a cancer poster.
Live like a Smoker – Die like a Smoker
Smoke Free – A Brighter Future
Don’t let your life go up in smoke.