Robert W. Hemphill Professions : U.S. representative Born : May 10, 1915 Died : December 25, 1983 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Robert W. Hemphill If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is. Robert W. Hemphill commercial-banks dollars bankers Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon. Robert W. Hemphill money intellectual civilization Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. Robert W. Hemphill commercial-banks money bankers If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. Robert W. Hemphill banking coins dollars Similar Authors Benjamin Harvey Hill us-representative Douglas H. Bosco us-representative Durward Gorham Hall us-representative David F. Emery us-representative David D. Aitken us-representative Howard Wolpe us-representative All Authors
