What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth. On your behalf. . . .

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character