Gold Quotes

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

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

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  Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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• Gold is money. Everything else is credit.

  J. P. Morgan

  Credit

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• The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

  Rumi

  Wise, Hands, Earth

  Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.16, Wellfleet

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• Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Power Of Myth

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  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

  Mark Twain

  Educational, Inspiration, Iron

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

  George Herbert

  Locks

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• Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Needs, Generations, May

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• Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Soul, Clay, Sun

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• When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

  Publilius Syrus

  Causes, Arguing, Eloquence

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

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Commodity, Enjoy, Marketability

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• To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

  William E. Rees

  Perfect, Long, Risk

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• Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Glorious

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

  Bernard Baruch

  Believe, Years, Two

  Bernard Baruch (1944). “Park Bench Statesman”

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• The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Mean, Feel Good

  "The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude".

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• Gold will be slave or master.

  Horace

  Slave, Masters

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

  Alain de Lille

  Shining

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• I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

  Murray Rothbard

  People, Coins, Paper

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• Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Government, Years, Humans

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• The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Merit, Process

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• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Commodity, Century

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today, the U.S. dollar serves as the international medium of exchange, managed by Washington politicians and Federal Reserve officials, manipulated from day to day, and serving political goals and ambitions. This difference alone sounds the alarm to all perceptive observers.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ambition, Order, Differences

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• All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Giving, Earth

  Plato (2016). “Laws”, p.315, Xist Publishing

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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Rights, Way

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.94, Penguin

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