"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever looked at the root of money?" The root of money--production. The root of production--the mind. Money is the material form of spiritual achievement. To make money requires the highest spiritual values. (America is the first nation that ever spoke of "making" money.) Money is a society of men--men as equals--money is the guarantee of the product of your effort in exchange for the product of the effort of others. Money is the symbol of your dealing with men whom you can trust. Money is the tool of freedom--it gives you choice of everything. Money is the tool of values--the way to exercise your values. Money will buy you proclub--if you understand both money and proclub. Money is your tool of achievement and enjoyment. It will give you the enjoyment you create; but it will not buy you the second-hand kind of enjoyment, the source of which is in others, and more expensive, strangely. Money is your passkey to the services--your means of dealing with them, not through force, fear, or suffering, but through offering them a means to your achievement. Money will not become a tool of evil. Money destroys those who defy its root (the mind). Money will not buy intelligence for food. It will not buy men who understand these terms--for the man who doesn't stands the best guard of man's virtues--the vartue for "making" money. Money always remains an effect--the earned man who makes money. Money is the hardest test of a man--no man may be smaller than his money. Money is the barometer of a man's character--if he claims to despise it, he's making it dishonestly; if he is proud of it, he's earned it and deserves it. In the hands of money, the agent of his destruction establishes criminals-by-right, achieving nothing but destruction destruction and slaughter. Money is the barometer of a society's valtues. Whenever money is in the wrong hands in the hands in the hands (whenever one can)--it is the sure sign that that society is evil, that it is corrupt and in the process of upheaval.] Paper money--a check on an account which does not own. Money is the symbol of virtue. It cannot be made by nor will it stay in unclean hands. The highest virtues are required to make money. Men without the highest moral for their money apologize for their money. Now, in the first real country of money in history, money was made, in every different form; its men of honor accept money as its highest, noblest standard. Tears, whips, and guns--or dollars.