Your search for "seeking for riches" returned 4 results from 4 Founders.
Benjamin Franklin:"He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."source: Poor Richard's Almanackmoney, worries, seeking for riches, prosperity
Alexander McDougal:"What are all the Riches, the Luxeries, and even the Conveniences of Life compared with that Liberty where with God and Nature have set us free, with that inestimable Jewel which is the Basis of all other Employments?"source: To the Free and Loyal Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York, May 16, 1770.liberty, freedoms, happiness
Michel Jean De Crevecoeur:"I do not mean that every one who comes will grow rich in a little time; no, but he may procure an easy, decent maintenance, by his industry. Instead of starving he will be fed, instead of being idle he will have employment; and these are riches enough for such men as come over here."source: Letters from an American Farmer, 1782.immigration, industry, success, employment, wellfare
Benjamin Rush:"Political freedom includes in it every other blessing. All the pleasures of riches, science, virtue, and even religion itself derive their value from liberty alone. No wonder therefore wise and prudent legislators have in all ages been held in such great veneration; and no wonder too those illustrious souls who have employed their pens and sacrificed their lives in defense of liberty have met with such universal applause. Their reputations, like some majestic river which enlarges and widens as it approaches its parent ocean, shall become greater and greater through every age and outlive the ruins of the world itself."source: To Catharine Macaulay, January 18, 1769.freedom, virtue, science, religion, liberty

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