“No pillager or wrecker had been there;
It seemed that time had passed on otherwhere,
Nor laid a finger on this hidden place
Rich with the wealth of some forgotten race.”
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
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Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 12, p. 183
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

“Help me to liberate those who create wealth—and to make the wreckers run for cover.”
Article for the News of the World (29 April 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104052
Leader of the Opposition
Context: In this over-governed country of ours, the creative majority have too little freedom, and the tiny minority of wreckers have too much licence. The government I shall form next weekend will decisively reverse this state of affairs. Help me to liberate those who create wealth—and to make the wreckers run for cover.

Congressional Testimony on Football
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 24)
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 95-96

“Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.”
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 29.