Political Quotes

George F. Hoar: “Indeed the ease with which it can be transported and the certainty of its redemption makes the paper money of the United…”

On the record
Indeed the ease with which it can be transported and the certainty of its redemption makes the paper money of the United States better than gold.
Said by
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar argues that U.S. paper money has advantages over gold due to its transportability and redemption certainty.

Share

More from George F. Hoar

We bring you the heart's love of Boston where you were born, and Worcester where you took the early vows you have kept so well; of Massachusetts who knows she has no worthier son, and of the great and free country to whom you have taught…

gutenberg.org

This quaint old room, with its great oak beam overhead, and its kitchen grate wide enough to roast a deer--this strange blending of an hotel dining-room and a Court of Justice, has nevertheless a link with the far distant past more…

gutenberg.org
Nov 15, 2021

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.

congress.gov

If there is anything more beautiful than a moonlight summer night in the heart of the Forest of Dean, it is its transformation into a summer morning, with the sparkle of dew on the grass, and the sunrise on the trees; with the music of…

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation