Monetary Power Quotes

The sinews of war are infinite money.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

All things obey money.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

Without money nothing gets done.

“Never again” doesn’t reckon with money’s ability to erase memory.

The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank.

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

Money talks at the end of the day.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

A good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

If we are going to go into a global currency fight against countries like China, well, the US has about 75, 76 billion in foreign reserves. They're going to be up against China with 1.7 trillion in US dollars and foreign reserves, so it's not much of a fight there. It could be an interesting fight though.