Will Rogers Quotes

Capitalists personally are often the mildest-mannered men that ever shattered a family or drained a workingman of his marrow.

The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

... wholly in the interest of the creditor classes, the banking fraternity, and the commercial world, without proper provision for the debtor classes and those who toil, produce and sustain the country.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

In America, we have freedom of choice. But some are free to choose between Lamborghini and Rolls Royce while others are free to choose which dumpster they're going to have their meal out of next. Some are free to choose which, you know, homes and farms to foreclosed on, while others choose which bridge they're going to sleep under tonight.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Affluence creates poverty.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Capitalists are no more capable of self sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself by his own bootstraps.

The barbarous gold barons—they did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.