John Buchanan Robinson Quotes

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

Guilty, Himself, Felt

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson

Modern, Egoism, Altruism

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
John Buchanan Robinson

Special, Until, Times

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
John Buchanan Robinson

Sense, Word, Modern

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, Pleasure

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

Short, Security, Behind

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson

Financial, Present, Paper

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

Far, Individual, Exist

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, Him, Interest

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, Simple, May

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
John Buchanan Robinson

Alone, Universe, Stands

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, May

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, Same, Often

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

Makes, Community, Tax

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
John Buchanan Robinson

Government, Business, Said

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Far, Times

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Almost, Modern

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

Woman, Old, Interest

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
John Buchanan Robinson

Insecure, Paper, Suspicion

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
John Buchanan Robinson

Sometimes, Longer, Paid

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Business, Credit

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
John Buchanan Robinson

May, Interest, Fooled

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.
John Buchanan Robinson

Enough, Gold, Currency

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
John Buchanan Robinson

Feelings, Thoughts

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.
John Buchanan Robinson

Country, Insecure, Become

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: May 23, 1846

Died: January 28, 1933

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