“Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood of our veins.”

About William R. Alger

Author • American

William Rounseville Alger was a prominent 19th-century American author, abolitionist, and Unitarian minister. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School and served in several churches, most notably in Boston. His...