Best money Quote by Murray Rothbard

A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by…

— James Rickards

Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must…

— Lawrence Reed

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always…

— William E. Rees

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

— Alan Greenspan

We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that…

— Adolf Hitler

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

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

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

— Karl Marx

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

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the…

— Alan Greenspan