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“Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.”

Men Government Wealth Millions Dangerous Every Man Thirty

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns that mean something only in conjunction with verbs. That's why wealth is so dangerous: if you're not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.”

Ifs Mean Ends Use Values Enjoy Wealth Dangerous Careful Possession Verbs Garage Nouns Conjunctions

Author:Rob Bell

“A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic”

“The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.”

People Ifs Facts Values Wealth Dangerous Profit Command Temptation Administration Expenses

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.”

Source: Greek and Roman Lives

“But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.”

People Men Country Whole Able Law Wealth Common Atheism Dangerous Danger Blind Sake Monsters Colour Cheat Assistance Hypocrite Clergy

Book:The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

“Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.”

Wealth Dangerous Active Inheritance Benevolence

Author:Charles Simmons

“An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Littles Speak Wealth Dangerous Grateful Humble Sensible Stunned Predicaments

Book:The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life

“Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.”

Wealth Money Dangerous Masters Servant

Author:Francis Bacon

“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.”

Should Stills States Action Political Evil Belief Fear Wealth Sin Emotion Dangerous Danger Source Envy Monsters Urges Engines Stable Consensus Political Action Deadly Sins

Author:Paul Johnson

“Money without brains is always dangerous.”

Wealth Money Brain Dangerous Danger Dangerous Things Funny Money Wise Money Best Money

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.”

Wells Self Faces Father Christ Church Wealth Mankind Dangerous Regret Authority Dignity Denial Regimes Outrage Self-denial Penance Abnegation

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?”

World Want Different Country Happens Wealth Dangerous Spread Inequality Around The World Concentration Coincidence Different Countries

Author:Thomas Sowell