Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

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

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

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.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

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

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

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.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

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

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

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

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

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.