Money Quotes

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed."

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

"Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves."

"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich."

"It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people."

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."

"Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves."

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."

"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big."

"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program."

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."

"Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."