Art Quote by Thomas More Hoban

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society…

— Andrew Jackson

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all,…

— Thomas More

“Men who, in the best of circumstances and with all the ability to dictate all that would have been just, fine, and good for…

— Emmanuel Sieyés

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding

“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds than mine…

— Steve Earle

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

“I know that we think far otherwise, and hold them most part wise men that are in authority, princes, magistrates,{185} rich men, they are…

— Robert Burton

“They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were…

— Jane Austen

“The coat of arms of the human race ought to consist of a man with an axe on his shoulder proceeding toward a grindstone.…

— Mark Twain

“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed…

— Victor Hugo

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes,”

— Andrew Jackson