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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson
Financial
Gold
Present
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
John Buchanan Robinson
Business
Government
Principles
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
John Buchanan Robinson
Community
Tax
Interest
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
John Buchanan Robinson
Money
Interest
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson
Altruism
Idealism
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
John Buchanan Robinson
Wife
Children
Friends
May
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
John Buchanan Robinson
Universe
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
John Buchanan Robinson
Money
Income
May
Reason
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
People
Army
Crime
Taxes
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
John Buchanan Robinson
Banks
Old
Woman
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
John Buchanan Robinson
Gold
Security
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
Happiness
Sympathy
People
Pleasure
Will
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
John Buchanan Robinson
Knowledge
Ideals
Interest
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
John Buchanan Robinson
Interest
May
Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
John Buchanan Robinson
Thoughts
Emotions