“Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”

— Napoleon I of France

Attributed in Monarchy or Money Power (1933), by R. McNair Wilson. No primary source for this is known.
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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

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