Quote#Politics & Power
Believing wealth to be good, the people believed the wealthy to be…
Quote byHenry Demarest Lloyd · 1847–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), Page 515.
English (original)
Believing wealth to be good, the people believed the wealthy to be good. But, again in history, power has intoxicated and hardened its possessors, and pharaohs are bred in counting-rooms as they were in palaces.
— Henry Demarest Lloyd
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