Monetary Assets Quotes

In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

I got so much money I should start a bank. So much paper right in front of me it's hard to think.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.