John Kenneth Galbraith, Justice Salmon Chase, William Jennings Bryan

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"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which

complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

(1908- ) Canadian-born economist, Harvard professor

Source: Money: Whence it came, where it went - 1975, p15

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"The legal tender quality [of money]

is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty."

-- Justice Salmon Chase

Chief Justice, formerly Secretary of Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration

Source: in dissent of Knox vs. Lee (The Legal Tender Cases, 1871)

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"Money power denounces, as public enemies,

all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes."

-- William Jennings Bryan

(1860-1925) US Congressman (1891-1895), US Secretary of State (1913-1915) under President Woodrow Wilson, Democratic Party nominee for President 1896, 1900 and 1908

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