"If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people."

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.""

"The elegant simplicity of the three per cents."

"Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit."

"The American nation in the Sixth Ward is a fine People," he says. "They love th' eagle," he says. "On the back iv a dollar."

"The grabbing hands Grab all they can All for themselves, after all It's a competitive world Everything counts in large amounts"

"The lands and houses, the goods and merchandise and the money of the world are owned by a very few. All the rest in some way serve that few for so much as the law of life and trade permit them to exact."

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."

"Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade."

"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. … I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. .. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."

"... I realized that "money talk," let's call it that way, is purposefully esoteric. Like, it's designed to not be understood — to create this aura around it — ... you, me, we shouldn't really concern ourselves with this, because it's too arcane and abstruse. Leave it to the specialists. And that's a power play ..."

"Lost money is wept for with real tears."

"To make money honestly is to preach the gospel."

"Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money."

"To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst."

"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."

"So pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! So pleasant it is to have money."

"Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away."

"Get money; still get money, boy; No matter by what means."

"As I sat at the Café I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!"

"The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him."

"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""

"Money often costs too much."

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

"Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in arca, Tantum habet et fidei."

"Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit, Et minus hanc optat, qu non habet."

"Endless money forms the sinews of war"

"Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris."

"The way to resumption is to resume."

"Everybody needs money. That's why it's called "money"."

"To virgin minds, which yet their native whiteness hold, Not yet discoloured with the love of gold (That jaundice of the soul, Which makes it look so gilded and so foul) ..."

"The sinews of affairs are cut."

"Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice, almighty gold."

"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living."

"The sweet simplicity of the three per cents."

"As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it."

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"Make ducks and drakes with shillings."

"It is possible that those who are in no way pressed down with the weight of money may be condemned with the covetous in disposition and intent. For it was the opportunity of possessing which was wanting in their case, and not the will for it."

"Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things."

"THIS IS YOUR GOD"

"Covetousness ... chooses to love and care for images stamped on gold instead of God."

"Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne."

"The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages."

"We must not only guard against the possession of money, but also must expel from our souls the desire for it. For we should not so much avoid the results of covetousness, as cut off by the roots all disposition towards it. For it will do no good not to possess money, if there exists in us the desire for getting it."

"How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines, But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines, Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;— Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp."