gold Quotes

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

“In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.”

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

“I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.”

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

“O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”