Coins Quote by David Ricardo

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

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

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't…

— Bernard von NotHaus

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

— Euripides

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

— Alfred Marshall

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

— Karl Marx

For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest…

— Hans F. Sennholz

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value…

— John Buchanan Robinson

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a…

— Anonymous

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in…

— Hans F. Sennholz