Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Gold

• Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Men, Brave

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.279, Penguin

• The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money intrinsic value that may come into use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Issues, People

• The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Eagles, Gold

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.93, Stanford University Press

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