“No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.”
General George S. Patton
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
Ernest Boyer
“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The poor man is never free; he serves in every country”
Voltaire
“Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country”
Edward Abbey