Henry Charles Carey Quotes

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.

The ability to take advantage of freedom and democracy is proportional to the size of your bank account.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

India has political freedom but it does not have economic freedom.

Prosperity or egalitarianism—you have to choose. I favor freedom—you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

There are a lot of Americans who do not realize that their financial comfort is a consequence of conditions and programs in this country that made it possible for them to be wealthy.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

America is a young country, with small inequalities of property, and without manufactures. Few people are here dependent on the rich, for every man has an opportunity of becoming rich himself…the people of New England enjoy an equality of condition unknown in any other part of the world.

There may not be as many rich individuals, but there will be far less poor.

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

There's no future in being poor.

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.