Well, here’s the trick about money. The understanding that it is available in unlimited supply and readily replaceable changes everything.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Money is only important for what it will procure. Thus a change in the monetary unit, which is uniform in its operation and affects all transactions equally, has no consequences. If, by a change in the established standard of value, a man received and owned twice as much money as he did before in payment for all rights and for all efforts, and if he also paid out twice as much money for all acquisitions and for all satisfactions, he would be wholly unaffected.

Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go. Try to hedge it around with prohibitions, and it would go and we could not stop it; and no more would come.

“The answer to ‘Why’ is always ‘Money.’”

Money. You don't know where it's been,
but you put it where your mouth is.
And it talks.

Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.

When a fellow says that it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

"They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder."

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing," it's th' money.

Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so.