Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Silver

• Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Hands, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

• Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dollars, Paper, Silver

  Thomas Jefferson (1856). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.268

• It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Evil, Gold

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