Emily Browning Quotes

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Money is information, like bits.

The crown has the sole right to issue money.

Paper money never was beat.

The currency of any country, whether it be coin or bank-notes, cannot be increased beyond the mercantile wants of that country, without producing a depreciation in the parts which compose the currency.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

By the experience of commercial nations in all ages it has been found that gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.

The several forms of our paper money offer, in my judgment, a constant embarrassment to the Government.

Money can never circulate freely and actively unless there be absolute confidence in its value.

We believe in honest money, the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

Bad money drives out good money.

Gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.

Money was of no value whatever. Gold is quite unknown; it is thought to be brass; trade is carried on by barter alone. The people know nothing of money.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

We will never cause any money to be coined in the land of any of the princes which shall be injurious to his coinage.

The institution of a bank has also a natural relation to the regulation of trade between the States, in so far as it is conducive to the creation of a convenient medium of exchange between them, and to the keeping up a full circulation, by preventing the frequent displacement of the metals in reciprocal remittances Money is the very hinge on which commerce turns. And this does not merely mean gold and silver; many other things have served the purpose, with different degrees of utility. Paper has been extensively employed.