A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Money Quotes
Karl Marx and Robert Kiyosaki are tied for the most entries here, which is about as wide a spread of opinion as one page can hold. The sourced quotes lean towards the sceptics. Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says the richest man is the one whose pleasures are the cheapest. Chesterton, in his novel The Flying Inn (1914), is less polite about the rich.
“The lack of money is the root of all evil” is credited to Mark Twain, and it does appear in a posthumous piece of his from 1905. It had already been in print, though. Wikiquote finds it in 1872, set in quotation marks as if readers would know it, and a similar remark about gold in a magazine from 1859.
But more have been by avarice opprest,
And heaps of money crowded in the chest.
It's an illness to always want more money when you've already got infinite riches.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.