Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is there that money will not do?

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear.

One handful of money is stronger than two handfuls of truth.

All things obey money.

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

I can buy any man in the world.

Money speaks in Utah.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Money: power at its most liquid.

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.