Anthony Trollope Quotes
I doubt there is any true courage in squabbling for money.
Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882, British Novelist, Barchester Towers
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The president was himself an evangelical Christian and he had gone out of his way to issue executive orders authorizing payments to be made for church operated social service activities where proselytizing was permitted. Many Americans thought bush had jumped over the wall separating church and state and yet some of the evangelical Christians kept insisting on more and more money.
See {625339} and {622808} for similar conservative views.
There was a great deal of war profiteering during the American Revolution and Gerard thought that this was a negative indicator of prospects for America. Things actually got worse during the war of 1812 where there was war profiteering also and many in New England profited from selling supplies to the British enemy. Unfortunately, taking economic advantage of a wartime crisis has accompanied virtually every war in which we have become engaged. In WWII, the automobile industry virtually blackmailed the government into high profits if they would produce war material instead of cars, and the rapaciousness of Haliburton in the Iraq war became a national scandal. See George Washington’s comment on the time {624228}.
Ironically, Boesky was convicted the following year of insider dealing on the New York Stock Exchange and sentenced to three years in prison.
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.
