They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property....

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property....

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property....

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property....