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

— George Bancroft

"The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", p. 424
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)

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American historian and statesman 1800–1891

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