Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.
An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.
No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.
The paper standard is self-destructive.
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.
The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.