Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 383 Money quotesMoney QuotesMoney Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.~ Bill Bonner The trouble with gold is that it turns its back on world improvers, empire builders and do-gooders.~ Bill Bonner When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover that check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money.~ Boston Federal Reserve Bank This [audit] was made extremely difficult because [IRS] existing Systems were not designed to provide reliable financial information... on their operations.~ Charles A. Bowsher In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen.~ Keith Bradsher A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry Browne Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.~ William Jennings Bryan Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.~ Warren Buffett I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street...~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.~ Stephen T. Byington A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.~ John C. Calhoun Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance.~ Mortimer Caplin Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.~ Douglas Casey Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.~ Catherine of Siena He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.~ Raymond Chandler Money for me has only one sound: liberty.~ Gabrielle Chanel The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.~ Justice Salmon Chase The Rothschilds can start or prevent wars. Their word could make or break empires.~ Chicago Evening American The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.~ Joseph H. Choate We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print