“The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.”
“Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
“In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.”
“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.”
“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.”
“Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.”
“I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.”
“There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.”
“In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.”
“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”
“Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.”
“Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.”
“I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.”
“If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.”
“In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.”
“The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”
“I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”
“I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation”
“As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.”
“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.”
“Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.”
“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.”
“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”
“In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
“I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]”
“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?”
“Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.”