No, I'm not in the Illuminati.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.
It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.
