C. L. R. James Quote

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (ed. Penguin UK, 2001) - ISBN: 9780141937083