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“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.”

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Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.”

Believe Wisdom Politics I Believe Social Wealth My Own Economy Significant Income Psychological Inequality Liberalism Justification

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.”

Two Wisdom Government Spirit Politics Individual Economy Democracy Extremes Inequality Liberalism Excess Conquest Aristocracy Despotism Democracies Have

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.”

Ifs States Wisdom America Politics Black United Race United States Economy Conditions Revolution Inequality Soil Liberalism Black Race

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.”

Men Political Politics Inequality Thrive Goats

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.”

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Author:Barack Obama