Quotes About Wealth

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.