Capable Quote by Murray Rothbard

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

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and…

— David Ricardo

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

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

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

— Alfred Marshall

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

From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically,…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

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

— Euripides

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

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with…

— Bernard von NotHaus

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

— Joseph Joubert