Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Inequality is on the rise.

Redistribution of wealth has rarely been from the rich to the poor. Usually it is from the poor and middle class to the rich.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

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

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.