Quote#Politics & Power
At the age of twenty two, wrote... a letter which has been an object…
Quote byAndrew Dickson White · 1832–1918
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 168-169.
English (original)
at the age of twenty two, wrote... a letter which has been an object of wonder among political thinkers ever since. Its subject was paper money. Discussing the ideas of John Law, and especially the essay of Terrasson which had supported them, he dissected them mercilessly, but in a way useful not only in those times but in these.
— Andrew Dickson White
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