Buying gold Quote by Harry Browne

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

— John Buchanan Robinson

I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

— Murray Rothbard

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

— John Paulson

Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The threat of gold redeemability imposes a constant check and limit on inflationary issues of government paper. If the government can remove the threat,…

— Murray Rothbard

It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil…

— Thomas Jefferson

Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper…

— Murray Rothbard

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

— Karl Marx

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

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse…

— Thomas Paine

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

— Patricia Schroeder

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use…

— Murray Rothbard