"Of all forms of tyranny the least..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
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“What I am to be, I am becoming.”
“I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.”
“Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.”
More on Wealth
“A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.”
“Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.”
“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”
More on Tyranny
“A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.”
“Tyranny must not prevail.”
“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.”