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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Archibald MacLeish

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

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

David Herbert Lawrence

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.