Equal Quote by Thomas Paine

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

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

— Ron Paul

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

No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.

— Steven T. Byington

“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

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

— Alfred Marshall

The law itself follows gold.

— Propertius

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

— Salmon P. Chase

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

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

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