American Quote by David Liss

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

— Robin Leach

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but…

— Bill Gates

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a…

— Gerald F. Lieberman

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have…

— Faye Wattleton

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

— Nadia Murad

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll…

— Frederick Lenz

A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or…

— Thomas Pogge

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary…

— Anthony Crosland

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the…

— Henry Ford