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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping… — Benjamin Franklin
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image,… — Pope Francis
The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the… — Mother Teresa
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. — Robert Penn Warren
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. — Grover Cleveland
Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Unknown Author
From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the… — John F. Kennedy
[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class… — Harry Shearer
For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of… — Mo Udall
Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. — Rodney Dangerfield
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin
If all men were rich, all men would be poor. — Mark Twain
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. — Peter Drucker
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an… — George Wald
The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or… — Charles Handy
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and… — Thomas Peterffy
"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him… — Seraphim Rose
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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