Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard. — Jeanie Buss Copy Share Image
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
“A human is not a device that reliably reports a gold standard judgment of relevance of a document to a query.” — Hinrich Schütze Copy Share Image
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell… — Helen Callaghan Copy Share Image
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
“Is it enough for people to simply enjoy their work without finding it meaningful or being passionate about it? I think it… — Barbara Moses Copy Share Image
I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
I have come across a dozen studies that shows that you get more phytonutrients and more minerals and vitamins from organic, but… — Jo Robinson Copy Share Image
The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Alan Greenspan, who would later become the Federal Reserve chairman, wrote in 1966: [T]he earnings saved by the productive members of the… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
“Confusing the matter is the fact that there are three often-conflicting definitions at play: American Indians are the only people defined as… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was… — Eric J. Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour, ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince. They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“International economic integration generally expands economic opportunities and is good for society. The great alternatives to economic integration failed. Attempts to seal… — Jeffry A. Frieden Copy Share Image
The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West Copy Share Image