Caring for the Poor
<p>Prosperity is the best protector of principle.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. II ; as cited in <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486473198"><em>Mark Twain at your Fingertips</em></a>: A Book of Quotations, ed. Caroline Thomas Hornsberger, Courier Corp. (2009), p. 385</p>
<p>In other words: it is not a surprise that rich people have certain principles and poor people do not have the luxury of living a certain principled way. It is not a moral failing, it is an economic one.</p>
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