Time Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“For the benefit of your research people, I would like to mention (so as to avoid any duplication of labor): that the planet is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The Jacksonians were not monetary nationalists; specie was specie, and they saw no reason that foreign gold or silver coins should not circulate with…

— Murray Rothbard

“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.”

— Mark Kurlansky

“To Lucy Snowe, 'Romanism' is 'a great mixed image of gold and clay', and the latter quality is particularly evident in the bartering deals…

— Marianne Thormählen

“The Prince’s name preserved, in the boldness with which its opening syllables were—to borrow an expression from music—attacked, and in the stammering repetition that…

— Marcel Proust

“Old people often have unknown treasures in their homes, and I had often wondered what valuables the old man might have sitting around: original…

— Todd Robinson

“They came to Virginia City as soon as the true value of the Comstock was perceived. They constituted, no doubt, a deplorable source of…

— Bernard DeVoto

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money…

— Norm Franz

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

— John Ralston Saul