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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.