Daniel Webster Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Shoes, Gold Teeth

  Attributed in N.Y. Times, 6 Dec. 1925

• Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

  Daniel Webster

  Cheating, Class, Gold

  Daniel Webster (1886). “The Wisdom and Eloquence of Daniel Webster”

• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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