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- The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
- R. D. Hitchcock
- We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.
- Richard T. Ely
- If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
- Robert Collier
- People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to the Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer.
- Frederika Bremer
- A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
- Robert Cecil
- We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
- Author Unknown
- The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
- Author Unknown
- Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
- U Thant
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