Jared Lee Loughner (1988) Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting
December 8, 2010, video posting — www.kgun9.com, 9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?, KGUN9, January 8, 2011, 2011-01-10 http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809065,
December 8, 2010, video posting — www.kgun9.com, 9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?, KGUN9, January 8, 2011, 2011-01-10 http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809065,
Jared Lee Loughner (1988) Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting
December 8, 2010, video posting — www.kgun9.com, 9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?, KGUN9, January 8, 2011, 2011-01-10 http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809065,
Jared Lee Loughner (1988) Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting
sic <br class="br">YouTube video posting — Congresswoman Giffords, others shot in Ariz., January 8, 2011, MSNBC, NBC, 2011-01-10 http://www.webcitation.org/5vasUAkWV,
“Death is the currency of power.”
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 3, Chapter 8, “The Wrath of Diana” (p. 337).
Jack Glass (2012)
“That’s not a government, it’s a rugby scrum with a currency.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 53 (p. 582)
“If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
The Study of History (1895)
Context: Most of this, I suppose, is undisputed, and calls for no enlargement. But the weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong. The plea in extenuation of guilt and mitigation of punishment is perpetual. At every step we are met by arguments which go to excuse, to palliate, to confound right and wrong, and reduce the just man to the level of the reprobate. The men who plot to baffle and resist us are, first of all, those who made history what it has become. They set up the principle that only a foolish Conservative judges the present time with the ideas of the past; that only a foolish Liberal judges the past with the ideas of the present.
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp (10 July 1832)<br>Often paraphrased as: If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. <br class="br">1830s <br class="br">Context: It is maintained by some that the bank is a means of executing the constitutional power “to coin money and regulate the value thereof.” Congress have established a mint to coin money and passed laws to regulate the value thereof. The money so coined, with its value so regulated, and such foreign coins as Congress may adopt are the only currency known to the Constitution. But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation. If the bank be established for that purpose, with a charter unalterable without its consent, Congress have parted with their power for a term of years, during which the Constitution is a dead letter. It is neither necessary nor proper to transfer its legislative power to such a bank, and therefore unconstitutional.
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Speech in Tamworth (15 June 1970), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 563.
1970s
George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 20, If All The Half Dollars Have Disappeared...?, p. 282