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"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows."
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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"

"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."

"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."

"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."

"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody."
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"It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles."

"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community."

"In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest."

"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."

"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit."

"It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty."

"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."

"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"
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