The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

Exchange is no robbery.

The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.

The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.