Quotes About Wealth

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.