Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Commercial version
“I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.”
Attributed in: Yuji Takahashi " For Paik http://www.suigyu.com/yuji/en-text/paik.html," exhibition catalogue “ Bye-bye Nam June Paik http://www.watarium.co.jp/exhibition/0606_paik_en.html” at Watarium Museum, 2006. <br class="br">1970s
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“I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.”
Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi;
Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, lines 165–166 (tr. J. Lewis May)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself”
Aeschines (-389–-314 BC) Attic orator; statesman
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Philosophers (Regnery, 1969), p. 75
Context: Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”
Rand Paul (1963) American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/03/rand_paul_foreign_aid_goes_from_poor_people_in_rich_countries_to_rich_people_in_poor_countries.html, University of Kentucky, 3-27-2013. <br class="br">2010s
“I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.”
Pope Pius X (1835–1914) Catholic Pope and saint
His last will, as quoted in an obituary in The Maine Catholic Historical Magazine (1914) Volumes 3-6, p. 17
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Diary (26 April 1876) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
1870s
Arthur Young (1741–1820) English writer
Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, v. 4, p. 361 https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou04youn#page/360/mode/2up.
Huey Long (1893–1935) American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator
that's my slogan.
Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)