Poor Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed atall.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some decent government.…

— G.K. Chesterton

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can…

— Angus Deaton

In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never…

— John Adams

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

— Mason Cooley

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to…

— John Stuart Mill

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Aristotle

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

— Anonymous

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

— Benjamin Franklin

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

— Eugene V. Debs