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The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.