Famous Gold Quotes

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  1. “Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!” – Mr. T
  2. “I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.” – Kevin O'Leary
  3. “The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.” – Evel Knievel
  4. “They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.” – Michael Johnson
  5. “Gold is forever. It is beautiful, useful, and never wears out. Small wonder that gold has been prized over all else, in all ages, as a store of value that will survive the travails of life and the ravages of time.” — James Blakeley
  6. Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.” – Ron Paul
  7. “Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar and the euro and the yuan and the ringgit are mere memories.” — Richard Russell
  8. “We have gold because we cannot trust governments.” ― Herbert Hoover
  9. “There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality, and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.” – Charles de Gaulle
  10. “When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.” — Harry Browne
  11. “A US dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's not backed by gold or silver. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything.” – P. J. O'Rourke
  12. “As good as gold.” — Charles Dickens
  13. “Gold is still the ultimate store of wealth. It's the world's only true money. And there isn't much of it to go around. All of it ever mined would fit into a small building—a 56 foot cube. The annual world production would fit into a 14 foot cube, roughly the size of an ordinary living room. If each Chinese citizen were to buy just one ounce, it would take up the annual supply for the next 200 years.” – Mark Nestmann
  14. “My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.” ― John Gardner
  15. “My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.” – Anne Lamott
  16. “The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.” – James Surowiecki
  17. “If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold…if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper.” – Rick Santelli
  18. “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
  19. “Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.” – William Rees Mogg
  20. “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 Rees-Mogg
  21. “Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.” – Norm Franz
  22. “Never trust money more than gold.” ― Toba Beta
  23. “The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.” – Gerald M. Loeb
  24. “The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  25. “You have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.” – George Bernard Shaw
  26. “Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state.” — William F. Rickenbacker
  27. “Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.” — John S. Morrill
  28. “It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.” — William McFee
  29. “Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can it be gotten without it.” — Samuel Butler
  30. “O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.” – Lord Byron
  31. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy
  32. “Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.” – George Herbert
  33. “Gold—what can it not do, and undo?” – William Shakespeare
  34. “Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, you become "a gold alloy" and what that means is that you can rust at any time!” ― Israelmore Ayivor
  35. “The beauty about gold, though, is that in all states from uncertainty to conviction, it never for once gives up its lustre.” ― Ufuoma Apoki
  36. “I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.” ― Henry David Thoreau
  37. “Betting against gold is the same as betting governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.” — Gary North
  38. “Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.” — Paul Einzig
  39. “If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.” — Robert Ringer
  40. “Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.” – Mark Skousen
  41. “Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.” – Robert Kiyosaki
  42. “Gold is valuable everywhere in the world and is not dependent on political systems, any specific government policy, or set of policies.” – Roy Sebag
  43. “Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.” – Peter Schiff
  44. “If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine...but a lot of other things could collapse.” – Thomas Kaplan
  45. “If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.” – Paul Singer
  46. “Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible—forms which only the precious metals provide.” — Elgin Groseclose
  47. “If you don’t trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a beautiful pine tree, worth about $4,000 – $5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp and then paper, putting some ink on it, and then calling it one billion dollars?” — Kenneth J. Gerbino
  48. “Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.” — Antony C. Sutton
  49. “Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.” – David Ricardo
  50. “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.” – Alan Greendiv
  51. “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 Greendiv
  52. “A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.” – Ben Bernanke
  53. “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” – J. P. Morgan
  54. “For more than two thousand years, gold’s natural qualities made it man’s universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.” — Hans F. Sennholz
  55. “No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.” — Hans F. Sennholz
  56. “The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.” — Hans Sennholz
  57. “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.” — F.A. Hayek
  58. “Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.” — Michael Belkin
  59. “The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.” — Ludwig von Mises
  60. “Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.” – Karl Marx
  61. “In reality, there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.” – Lysander Spooner
  62. “Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.” – Thomas Hobbes
  63. “O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.” ― Euripides
  64. “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
  65. “Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We’ll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That’s the bastion of money.” — Adolf Hitler
  66. “The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.” – Attributed to a 1967 Wizard of Id comic strip
  67. “Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot.” – Chinese Proverb
  68. “If you are sick, think about your life; if you are better, think about your gold.” – Mongolian Proverb
  69. “If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.” ― Turkish Proverb
  70. “He fishes well who uses a golden hook.” – Latin Proverb

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