Moneyed Quotes

#1. I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

Andrew Jackson

#2. If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Nancy Grace

#3. What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.

George Orwell

#4. No one could deny that Gansey was a glorious portrait of youth, the well-tended product of a fortunate and moneyed pairing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.

Warren Buffett

#6. Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.

William H. Sylvis

#7. The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Robert Reich

#8. People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Anthony Edwards

#9. Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.

Norman Foster

#10. A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

Jude Morgan

#11. Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.

Thomas Pynchon

#12. 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.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.

Ted Cruz

#15. Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Denis Kearney

#16. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob ... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred ... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#17. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner

#18. Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges ... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

#19. A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Horace

#20. The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

El Greco

#22. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

#23. We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people - which is a minor part - and one run by the moneyed interests, which control everything.

Studs Terkel

#24. The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan K. Simpson

#26. Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Alex Newell

#27. I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.

Hilda Solis

#28. I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.

Christopher Hitchens

#29. China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

Wang Jianlin

#30. Cats aren't as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they're just big rats.

Richard House

#31. The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Vance Havner

#32. For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Mark Foley

#33. There's a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don't have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they're all the same shade of gray.

Ann Aguirre