Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes
Where might is, the right is:
Long purses make strong swords.
Let weakness learn meekness:
God save the House of Lords!
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. "A Word for the Country." A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems, Chatto & Windus, 1884, p. 129.
1st Viscount Bolingbroke. See {627799} for the origin of the bias against merchants and money men. It also represents a rigidity of class structure that characterized England until very recently. The landed gentry were the first class citizens. Usually titles went with the land. In America, someone who would be successful as a merchant or a banker could achieve the highest of social status and political influence. This was not true in England where a merchant that was far more wealthy than a landed lord was not accepted by the aristocracy.
Long was the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and his committee had to initiate any appropriation to any agency or function of government. In effect, Long had all “the gold.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
