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Quotations about gold
Michael Belkin
Author of the book The Belkin Report and former Vice President at Equom Brothers
“Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of state money) will skyrocket.“
Alan Greenspan
US economist serving as Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006, born on 6 March, 1926
“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. Gold and economic freedom are inseparable and each implies and requires the other.”
Charles de Gaulle
French statesman and army officer, 1890 - 1970
“Gold is considered, in all places and at all times, the immutable and fiduciary value par excellence.”
Swiss national bank
“Gold will continue to play a role as a currency reserve, especially in times of crisis.”
J.P. Morgan
US businessman and one of the most powerful bankers of his era, 1837 - 1913
“Gold is money, everything else is credit.”
Harry Browne
US politician and writer, 1933 - 2006
“When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.”
Ronald Reagan
40th president of United States of America, 1911 - 2004
“No great nation in history has survived fiat money, money that did not have precious metal backing.”
Pythagoras
Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, 585 - 500 B.C.
“Fire tries gold, gold tries woman, woman tries man.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman philosopher and statesman, 106 - 43 B.C.
“When gold is speaking, every speech is in vain.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman philosopher and statesman, 106 - 43 B.C.
“No property, no quantity of gold and silver should be valued more highly than virtue.”
Jára Cimrman
Fictitious Czech genius
“... discharging tobacco smoke into water does not form gold.”
Seneca
Roman philosopher, 4 B.C. - A.D. 65
”Gold opens every gate.”
Karel Gott
Czech singer, 1939 - 2019
“Money is not all ... there are also gold and securities.”
Euripides
Ancient Athenian dramatist, 480 - 406 B.C.
“Gifts persuade even the gods, and gold is stronger than ten thousand words.”
Philip of Macedon
“There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.”
Danish proverb
“Gold is armless but seizes all.”
Friedrich Von Bodenstedt
“A drop of love is more than a waterfall of gold.”
Roland Baader
Freiheitsfunken (Sparks of freedom)
“The medieval alchemists’ belief that it was possible to create gold out of lead was a show of level-headed reason compared with the modern delusion that money can be made out of paper.”
Ray Dalio
Bridgewater Associates, founder of the largest hedge fund in the world
“If you don’t own gold … there is no sensible reason other than you don’t know history or you don’t know the economics of it.”
Chinese proverb
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of time cannot be purchased for an inch of gold!”