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Wealth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
- Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
- I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,…
- Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle…
- The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth…
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
- Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The…
- There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions…
More Wealth Quotes
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin