“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”

“Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay!”

“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”

“In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. ”

“Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.”

“"Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I'm trying to be a myth; give us cash!" "No, I'm not gonna give you cash." "Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?" "No, I'm … comfortable." "That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?"”

“Taxes cannot be compared to dues paid to a voluntary organization for such services as one expects from membership, because the choice of withdrawal does not exist. In refusing to trade one may deny oneself a profit, but the only alternative to paying taxes is jail. The suggestion of equity in taxation is spurious. If we get anything for the taxes we pay it is not because we want it; it is forced on us.”

“It's the rich and powerful, by and large, who glamorize immorality, but it's the poor and vulnerable who pay the price.”

“I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.”
Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi; Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.

“Those who tried to refuse or go against the Will of God, like Jonah, had to pay the price of disobedience.”