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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.