Gold Quotes - Page 5

• No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Commodity, Enjoy, Marketability

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• A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Vices, Thirst

  Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but has led to all sorts of undesirable consequences. Indeed, many are just beginning to realize that we are moving towards disaster even though we have been on a wrong heading for decades.

  Leonard Read

  Moving, Needs, Realizing

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• Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Quota, American Voters

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Height, Tasks

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Independent, Men, Organization

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• The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

  Mitch Gaylord

  Memories, Team, Bronze Medal

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• And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

  Richard Hovey

  Men, Cotton, Wealth

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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

  Use, Silver, Needed

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• Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Running, Panic, Notes

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• At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Paper, Financial, Currency

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• There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

  Coleman Young

  Wine, Water, Brilliant

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• An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Two, Hype, People

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• To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

  Roald Dahl

  Black, Coal

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.19, Penguin

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• I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Winning, Champion, Medal

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

  Don Dokken

  Wall, Ceilings, Looks

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• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  John Jakes

  Land, California, Treasure

  John Jakes (2012). “California Gold”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Moving, Hypocrite, Idols

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• Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Friendship, Men, Treasure

  "Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter".

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• Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

  Prudentius

  Hunger, Made, Greater

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• We have gold because we cannot trust governments

  Herbert Hoover

  Government

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• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

  Aristotle

  Iron, Pieces, Matter

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1482, Catholic Way Publishing

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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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• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  Samuel Butler

  Virtue, Commoners

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.75, Samuel Butler

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