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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Armstrong Williams

Society

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

William Weld

Wealth

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Daniel Webster

Wealth

Earth

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Wealth

Years

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Alfred Russel Wallace

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

John Tyler

Wealth

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope

Wealth

Matrimony