Top 10 Most Libertarian Mark Twain Quotes

#9. On the economy

It isn’t the sum you get, it’s how much you can buy with it, that’s the important thing; and it’s that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Twain understood full well what monetary policy could do to the savings and currency of a people. Sure you can have a lot of paper money, but what can you buy with it? The Germans of the failed Weimar Republic learned that lesson well, when their economy collapsed and they used money as wallpaper.

 

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