Anthony Trollope Quotes
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
Trollope, Anthony. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson. Smith, Elder & Co., 1870, p. 112.
The President was meeting with the segregationist governor of Alabama and demanded that the Governor register Black voters. The Governor stated that he had no control over the Alabama county registrars.
At the time of this interview there had been a decade of business fraud at many different levels. The regulatory agencies supposedly responsible for the regulation had neither the staff or the political will to even enforce the laws and regulations then in existence and there were many loopholes in those. Many business interests opposed all regulation and strict enforcement as a diminution of the health of the economy. Others, like Greenspan, saw fraud as corrupting the markets themselves and therefore the usual capitalistic economic competitive forces that would control business do not operate with extensive fraud.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters.
