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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an ambitious leftist, with little understanding of economics, and with far-reaching goals to create significant and irreversible growth of government and redistribution of wealth through dramatic changes in tax, regulatory, and spending policies.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.