Paper Currency

Famous quotes containing the words paper currency, paper and/or currency:

    “Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges ... which are employed altogether for their benefit.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “What presence must not know,
    From where you do remain let paper show.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.”
    —René Daumal (1908–1944)