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Wealth Quotes - Page 29

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

"NY mayor plans to address social inequity". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. January 2, 2014.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

"Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan, www.constitution.org. 1966.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.64, Pelekanos Books

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.69, e-artnow

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.100, Modern Library

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

"Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, 1777.