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The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

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

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

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

Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

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.