Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.John Buchanan Robinson
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
John Buchanan Robinson
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
John Buchanan Robinson
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
John Buchanan Robinson
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