Will Durant Quote

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.


The Story of Civilization...: The life of Greece (ed. 1939)


Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is...

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is...

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is...

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is...