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Quotes About Gold

Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.
~ Jay Leno
Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
~ J. P. Morgan
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
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
It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny, Gold around my neck, pockets full of money.
~ Schoolly D
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
~ Lord Byron
When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.
~ Christina Stead
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 F. Sennholz
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.
~ Nicholas Deak
Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.
~ Mike Belkin
There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.
~ Milton Friedman
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.
~ Murray Rothbard
Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.
~ Ron Paul
I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.
~ Murray Rothbard
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.
~ Ron Paul
If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.
~ Willi Way
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
~ Richard Bach
Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?
~ Jim Morrison
The morning hour has gold at the mouth.
~ Max Muller
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
~ Peter Snell
I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.
~ Megan Jendrick
Secrets are gold and we are the miners.
~ Nelo Igboejesi
Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.
~ Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
~ Bryan Ferry