Books Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

— Plato

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the…

— Anonymous

“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid…

— Murray Rothbard

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that…

— Ayn Rand

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

— Henry David Thoreau

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it;…

— Thomas Browne

“they wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men…

— Thomas More

Gold is the corpse of value...

— Neal Stephenson

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be…

— William Stanley Jevons