Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.

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.

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

God is making commerce his missionary.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.