“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.” IfsMeanWould BeWealthNumbersPovertyRichGreaterGrowingCitizensFortuneFinancialPrivilegeExtremesGrantedDividedExclusiveFinancial SystemExtreme Poverty Author:Denis Diderot
“In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.” IfsGovernmentRightsCitizensFortunePossessedWorthlessFree Government Author:John Marshall
“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.” Has BeensSometimesPoliticalDesireHistorySubjectsRegretSourceBirthCitizensAdvantageFortuneBritishServantPerpetualReignArbitraryRestorationEscapingRoman EmpireFactionsMonarchsDiscordObtainingTumultEminenceHaughty Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government.” MayMatterStatesHandsGovernmentPurposeChanceResultsCitiesVirtueShareReadyCitizensGoodnessBlessedFortuneAcknowledgeGoodsVirtuousLegislatorsBeing Blessed Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.” BelieveGovernmentI BelieveSuccessfulCitizensFortunePortionsHeirs Author:Bill Gates
“For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.” WorldWellsI CanTwoMatterTodayCultureEasyGrowing UpGrowingTaughtCitizensFortuneGermanyGood FortuneWorld CitizenTwo Cultures Author:Tarkan
“Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover.” HardGuyLeftFailingCenturyHard WorkCitizensFortuneCaughtCome UpCriminalsIndividualismRespectableDutchEmbodimentRuggedColonelsRugged Individualism Author:Luc Sante