" Sanctuary City Mayor Trashes An AMERICAN Hero, Robert E. Lee, https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/sanctuary-city-mayor-trashes-an-american-hero-robert-e-lee/" The Abbeville Institute, May 25, 2017
2010s, 2017
“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
Si est del riche orguillus:
Ja del povre n'avra merci
Pur sa pleinte ne pur sun cri;
Mes se cil s'en peüst vengier,
Dunc le verreit l'um suzpleier.
Fables, no. 10, "The Fox and the Eagle", line 18; cited from Mary Lou Martin (trans.) The Fables of Marie de France (Birmingham, Alabama: Summa, 1984) pp. 54-6. Translation from the same source, p. 55.
“The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.”
Maxim 941
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
Achtung! Vorurteile (2003); original German: "Der Terrorismus, der im furchtbaren 11. September kulminierte, ist ein Krieg der Armen gegen die Reichen. Der Krieg ist ein Terrorismus der Reichen gegen die Armen." typically cited in short: "Terrorismus ist der Krieg der Armen und der Krieg ist der Terrorismus der Reichen."
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 368
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
1780s
Variant: Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 18, Deficit Finance, p. 435
