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“Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.”

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Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.”

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Author:Patricia Schroeder

“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.”

“A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.”

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Book:Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality

Source: Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality

“Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.”

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Author:David Ricardo

“Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.”

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Author:Lawrence Reed

“Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is - and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.”

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Book:The Redemption of Althalus

Source: The Redemption of Althalus

“Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.”

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Book:The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression

Source: The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression

“If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.”

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Author:Sarah Shahi

“Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..." (Rapunzel glares) "Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.”

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Author:Shannon Hale

“Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.”

“I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.”

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Author:Catherine Fisher

“I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.”

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Author:Ernest Seyd

“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.”

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Author:Paul Einzig

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

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Author:Murray Rothbard

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