Gold Quotes - Page 19

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

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.

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

One golden day redeems a weary year

Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.