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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato429–349 BC
When there is an income-tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book IIn context
- Justice
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand1905–1982Atlas Shrugged (1957), Chapter Two: The Aristocracy of Pull, p. 410; Francisco d’Anconia to Bertram Scudder
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
- Freedom
- Love
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1906)
I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God’s Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
- God
Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers1879–1935As quoted in …
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Will Rogers Book (1972)
- Government
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
- Comedy
- Truth & Lies
Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)
- Happiness
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural Address (1937)
- Economics
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson — and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (21 November 1933); as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pg. 373
- Government
Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
- Government
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural Address (1937)
- America