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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. (De Leon Daniel)
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. (De Leon Daniel)
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. (De Leon Daniel)
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. (De Leon Daniel)
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Poverty is the worst form of violence. (De Leon Daniel)
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim. (De Leon Daniel)
Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. (De Leon Daniel)
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. (De Leon Daniel)
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government. (De Leon Daniel)
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. (De Leon Daniel)
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap! (De Leon Daniel)
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. (De Leon Daniel)
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. (De Leon Daniel)
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. (De Leon Daniel)
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. (De Leon Daniel)
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. (De Leon Daniel)
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow. (De Leon Daniel)
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. (De Leon Daniel)
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. (De Leon Daniel)
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. (De Leon Daniel)
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. (De Leon Daniel)
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