Benefits Quote by Adam Smith

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

— Alfred Marshall

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are…

— Murray Rothbard

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour…

— David Ricardo

Silver is much more of an industrial material than gold and accordingly has potential double benefits.

— Michael Haynes

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…

— Thomas Hobbes

Nothing from some... is more than gold from others.

— Anonymous

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its…

— Anonymous

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

— Ray Dalio

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

— Doris Lessing

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

— Horace