Casts Quote by William Shakespeare

The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would…

— Murray Rothbard

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

— Lane Kirkland

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

— Ali Fazal

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich…

— Harold Laski

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

— Aristotle

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth…

— Plutarch

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well.

— Vespasian

The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state,…

— Bill Foster

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

— Robert Southey

Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

— John Ruskin