Gold And Silver Quotes - Page 2

• We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

  Brigham Young

  Love Is, Men, Gold

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• The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Oil, Gold

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• In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Coins

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• Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Independent, Law, Gold

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 43), 1766.

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• Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Gold, Half, Silver

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.

  Theresa Villiers

  Kissing, Promise, Gold

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• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Gold, Silver, Turns

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• All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

  William Shakespeare

  Dirty, Gold, Worship

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• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

  Cecil Beaton

  Islands, Sky, Rose

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• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  Paracelsus

  Lying, Medicine, Gold

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• Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

  David Ricardo

  Powerful, Discovery, Doubt

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.11

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• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

  Kin Hubbard

  Agony, Fire, Giving

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• Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Gold, Use, Silver

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• When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.peakprosperity.com

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• There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
  And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

  W. H. Auden

  Sorrow, Gold, Mountain

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• From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Media, People, Gold

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• Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today? The paper dollar has lost 95% of its value, while the silver dollar is worth $34, and produced a 2-3 times rise in real value. Since we left the gold standard in 1971, both gold and silver have become superior inflation hedges.

  Mark Skousen

  Real, Gold, Dollars

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• Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Knowing, Mind

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• Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Money, Gold, Silver

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.361

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• The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

  Adam Smith

  Gold, Benefits, Silver

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.400, Harriman House Limited

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• Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Mean, Exercise, Men

  William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.39

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• I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Cheer, Father

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Europe, Vanity

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Responsibility, Intelligent

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• It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blood, Hands, Iron

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