Edmund Burke Quotes

All power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

It all boils down to power and money.

Money makes the world go around.

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

The revolt against the Papacy was essentially a struggle between exploiters and exploited, not a struggle over mere ecclesiastical dogmas or vague slogans, such as a struggle between “authority” and “individualism.” The Popes hastened their own destruction by becoming increasingly contemptible. This is the fate of every ruling class that has become obsolete and is approaching extinction. Their functions dwindle as their wealth grows, and nothing remains for them to do but dissipate the proceeds of their extortions.

What we call Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey. The concentration of wealth, the wiping out of the middle classes, are other names for it. To get it is, in the world of affairs, the chief end of man.

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

The building of the transcontinental railroads resulted in an orgy of political corruption. The public lands and the natural resources of coal, of iron, and of timber were lavishly wasted in the great scramble for wealth and material power. The carnival of waste and plunder reached its climax about 1890. Evidences were abundant that the great business interests of the country were controlling the government for their own private benefit. The capitalists who financed the railroads, mines, mills, packing houses, grain elevators, and other great enterprises, received from Congress favors which destroyed competition and enormously increased private fortunes.

Capitalists are generating death.

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.

The insurance companies use their economic power to grind down working people..

Money speaks in Utah.

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.