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“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”

Self Wealth Poverty Forever Serving Republic Tolerate Consumerism Overconsumption Self Serving

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.”

Ends Poverty Luxury Republic Monarchy

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.”

Ends Wisdom Politics Poverty Economy Habit Liberalism Republic Monarchy Luxurious

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.”

“When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.”

Long Ends Government Lasts Poverty Degrees Luxury Republic Monarchy Insensible

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.”

Poverty Originals Remains Extremes Republic Bananas Honduras

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”

Poverty Ruins Luxury Republic Tyrants Monarchy

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”

Firsts Able Poverty Military Willing Duty Citizens Weight Conservative Socialism Welfare Republic Citizenship Good Citizen Republic Day Good Citizenship

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”