John Buchanan Robinson (May 23, 1846 – January 28, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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.
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
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.
There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
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.
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.
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.
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.
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
You are forever alone.