August Quote by Michael Maloney

“President Richard Nixon took the stunning step on August 15, 1971, of taking the dollar off the gold peg. He did so with an…

— Paul Vigna

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took…

— Carl Andre

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

— Ron Paul

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in…

— James Dale Davidson

I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was…

— Ernest Seyd

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as…

— Paul Krugman

“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

When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and…

— James Rickards

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about…

— Ron Paul

“Gold is reserved for those who know its laws and abide by them.”

— George S. Clason

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“Freedom should not be sold for all the gold in the world”

— Aesop's Fables Walter Anglicus