Altered Quote by Thomas Hobbes

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

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour…

— David Ricardo

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.

— Anonymous

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are…

— Murray Rothbard

Gold actually has properties - you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for…

— Peter Schiff

Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but…

— William Batchelder Greene

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

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

— Karl Marx

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