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Money Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim…
- And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are…
- The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to…
- The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are…
- The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
- If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for…
- Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.
- Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with…
- Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power,…
- Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell…
More Money Quotes
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen