Private Fortune Quotes
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are… — Thomas Jefferson
- Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. — John Marshall