Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

After all, if no one is happy who does not have what he wants and if the skeptics are always seeking the truth, but do not find it, they cannot be happy. Furthermore, the skeptics claim that their wise man is happy, and yet he cannot be happy since he does not have what he wants.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

For there is an attractiveness in beautiful bodies, in gold and silver, and all things; and in bodily touch, sympathy hath much influence, and each other sense hath his proper object answerably tempered.

What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Money never sleeps, pal