With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.
