“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 is gold, and nothing else is”
— J.P. Morgan
“Gold were as good as twenty orators.”
— William Shakespeare
“Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.”
— Christopher Columbus
“Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.”
— Karl Marx
“As good as gold.”
— Charles Dickens