Money
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"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."
"Money, now this has to be some good shit."
"The usual definition of the functions of money are that money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment and a store of value."
"Money makes the man."
"Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
"Divitiæ bona ancilla, pessima domina."
"L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un méchant maître."
"Money is like muck (manure), not good except it be spread."
"Just as money has been in the past the instrument of men's selfishness, now it must be the instrument of their goodwill. (5 - 166)."
"I look at Paris Hilton, think about her parents' fortune and her grandparents' fortune. She thought she had it all together. A whole lot of people think that, that when you got money you can do anything you want to do. But I want to tell you there are some things money can't do for you; Money can buy you a house, but can't buy you a home; Money can buy you food to put on your table, but can't buy an appetite; Money can buy you one of the most finest matresses in the world, but can't buy you sleep."
"Money is the devil's dung."
"Money is the currency of the world, but it rarely is our currency."
"Money should buy you one thing only and that is freedom."
"The sinews of business (or state)."
"A lot of money goes to money-heaven."
"The accuser of sins by my side doth stand, </br>And he holds my money bag in his hand; </br>For my worldly things God makes him pay; </br>And he'd pay for more, if to him I would pray."
"We could never imagine what a strange disproportion a few or a great many pieces of money make between men, if we did not see it every day with our own eyes."
"And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes."
"Money well managed deserves, indeed, the apotheosis to which she was raised by her Latin adorers; she is Diva Moneta — a goddess."
"The greediness of gain is the only principle on which a stranger can be induced to furnish a stranger."
"Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked."
"Mr. Butler urged the same idea: adding that money was power; and that the States ought to have weight in the government in proportion to their wealth."
"Money…is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better."
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less."