"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."
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"Money confounds subordination."
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"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."
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"If the 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 that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People."
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"Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it."
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"Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher."
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"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
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"Money is a good servant, a dangerous master."
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"Would you know what money is, go borrow some."
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"You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business."
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"Geological time is not money."
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"Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted."
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"It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it."
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"Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest."
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"And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation."
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"We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year"
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"Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship."
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"The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle."
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"The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules."
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"My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack."
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