# Quote — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

> It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among cab-drivers or letter-carriers, among butlers or gamekeepers, among tailors or butchers, among farmers or grazers, among doctors or attorneys, we shall find in each set of men a conviction that the welfare of the community depends upon the firmness with which they, — especially they, — hold their own.

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Book: [Phineas Redux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phineas_Redux#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/it-is-out

## More from this book

> No doubt there were other first cousins as badly off, or perhaps worse, as to whom the Duchess would care nothing whether they were rich or poor, — married or single; but then they were first cousins who had not had the advantage of interesting the Duchess.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/no-doubt-there.md)

> “Isn‘t there some trouble about money?”
>
> “They wouldn‘t be very rich, Duchess.”
>
> “What a blessing for them! But then, perhaps, they‘d be very poor.”
>
> “They would be rather poor.”
>
> “Which is not a blessing.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/isn-t-there-some.md)

> The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/the-natural-man.md)