Class Quote by Theobald of Bec

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all…

— Adlai Stevenson I

“Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot…

— Pythagoras

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by…

— William James

“Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard—the men who live by force, yet count on those who live…

— Ayn Rand

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

— Harry S. Truman

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

— Aeschines

“We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to…

— William Faulkner

May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower