#money

You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#money

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. ↗

— Ron Paul

#federal-reserve #fiat #fiat-money #paper-money #war

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#lincoln #money

Money often costs too much ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#money #money

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#money

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#money

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. ↗

— James Madison

#government-spending #money

To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#money

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? ↗

— Dodie Smith

#money

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

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