Gold Specie Standard

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or standard:

    “Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief,
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)