"Gold invites violence.

Alexander gallivanted around the world to seize gold. Livy tells the story of one thousand roman sieges in order to steal the gold. Caeser sacked Gaul to take their gold. Kublai Khan seized the gold. Pizzaro seized gold from the Incas. Cortez seized gold from the Aztecs. King Charles I seized the gold from all the British nobles. The Prussians seized gold from the French in 1871. In World War I, EVERYBODY seized the gold. Lenin seized gold from the church in 1922. Roosevelt seized everybody's gold in 1933. Stalin seized the gold from the Spaniards in '36. Churchill took everybody's gold in 1940 at the onset of the war. At Bretton Woods, the United States seized the world's gold and took it hostage. And then Nixon killed all the hostages in 1971. "

-Saylor