Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. (George Bancroft)

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

George Bancroft

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