
“1675. God help the Rich; the Poor can beg.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 61
“1675. God help the Rich; the Poor can beg.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The world is filled with talented poor people.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: It is from a strange mixture of tyranny and cowardice that exclusions have been set up and continued. The boldness to do wrong at first, changes afterwards into cowardly craft, and at last into fear. The Representatives in England appear now to act as if they were afraid to do right, even in part, lest it should awaken the nation to a sense of all the wrongs it has endured. This case serves to shew that the same conduct that best constitutes the safety of an individual, namely, a strict adherence to principle, constitutes also the safety of a Government, and that without it safety is but an empty name. When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.
“If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.”
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 89
“A poor, charitable person can sometimes feel rich, a miserly Croesus never.”
Ein armer wohlthätiger Mensch kann sich manchmal reich fühlen, ein geiziger Krösus nie.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 74.
From her last House of Commons speech (22 November 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108256; response to M.P. Simon Hughes
Third term as Prime Minister