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You are forever alone.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Forever
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Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Emotion
Thoughts And Emotions
Emotions
Thoughts
Yours
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Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Credit
Modern
Altogether
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For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Midst
Stand Alone
Universe
Each One
Stands
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There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Experiences
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There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Circulation
Currency
Enough
Gold
Redeem
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Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Currency
Insecure
Paper
Suspicion
Hitherto
Paper Currency
Regarded
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The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Amount
Credit
Lending
Bank
Lend
Nowadays
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Egoism
Misinterpreted
Modern
Generally
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It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Government
Principles
Should
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Fooled
Ideals
May
Suits
Use
Suit
Uses
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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Currency
Financial
Gold
Paper
Chiefly
Crises
Financial Crises
Occur
Paper Currency
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Altruism
Antithesis
Egoism
Idealism
Idealism And Realism
Interpretation
Modern
Brief
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In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Interest
Paid
Use
Way
Hire
Precisely
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Interest
Old Woman
Paper
Pins
Banks
Buys
Price
Yielding
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However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
John Buchanan Robinson / U.s. Congressperson
Children
Dear
May
Wife
Near
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Happiness
Sympathy
People
Pleasure
According
Seek
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Members
Notes
Tax
Bank
Charge
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Running
Gold
Notes
Panic
Security
Suspended
Accordingly
Behind
Diminished
Short
Follows
Restricted
Runs
Supply
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Community
Land
Massachusetts
Parliament
Prosperity
Special
Bank
Colonial
Suppressed
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Available
Gold
Paid
Silver
Transactions
Use
Carry
Commercial
Far Less
Large Sums
Sums
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Knowledge
Domination
Ideals
Interest
Acts
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Commodity
Paid
Purchasing
Temporary
Period
Hire
Price
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Accepting
Egoism
Formulas
Individual
Institutions
Realization
Above
Chooses
Exist
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Available
Country
Currency
Gold
Insecure
Paper
Redemption
Volume
Wealth
Commodities
Limit
Paper Currency
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Cease
Command
Defined
Fund
Higher
Income
Reason
Simple
Buy
Capital
Cease To Exist
Itself
Exist
Practically
However
Per
Obtained
Price
Producing
Simple Reason
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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 / U.s. Congressperson
Kings
Accounting
Army
Crime
Felt
Guilty
People
Prerogative
Propriety
Return
Royal
Taxes
Reckoned
Himself
Questioned
Taking
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