John Buchanan Robinson Quotes

• Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• You are forever alone.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• 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

• There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• 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

• The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• 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

• Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• 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

• Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• 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

• 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

• It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• 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

• In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

  John Buchanan Robinson

• However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

  John Buchanan Robinson

John Buchanan Robinson (27)

Birth:	23rd May, 1846
Death:	28th January, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

John Buchanan Robinson was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American politician, lawyer and book editor. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1885 to 1887, and in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1889. He studied at Amherst College. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1868 and served in the Navy until he resigned in 1875. He studied law, admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as editor of the Delaware County Gazette in 1881 and 1882, and as a newspaper correspondent and owner of the Media Ledger.

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