“It doesn't matter what the supply of money is.”

— Murray N. Rothbard, book What Has Government Done to Our Money?

What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)

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American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian poli… 1926–1995

Jill Mansell (1957) British author

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Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

“Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act ii, Scene 3. Compare: "Get place and wealth,—if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place", Alexander Pope, Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103
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“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

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“To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter VIII, The Great Compromise, p. 90
Context: In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.