Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry their countrys pride When once destroyd can never be supplied.
Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry their countrys pride When once destroyd can never be supplied.
When prosperity comes do not use all of it.
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planets irreplaceable capital.
Agriculture manufactures commerce and navigation the four pillars of our prosperity are most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.