“I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?”

“Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.”

“One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.”

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

“The poor lack much, the greedy everything.”

“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”