Believe Quote by Clive Palmer

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already…

— Howard Blum

“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't…

— David Graeber

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax.…

— T.R. Reid

I have got gold secure all the time so income tax people will not be able to take the gold from my neck!

— Bappi Lahiri

“the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had drawn every…

— David Grann

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…

— Charles de Gaulle

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do,…

— Robert Ringer

“This is essentially why gold is still valuable in the twenty-first century. If gathered together, all the gold ever mined would fit inside a…

— Mark Miodownik

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

— John Maynard Keynes

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

— Pete Seeger

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

— Paul Volcker