I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
-Thomas Jefferson, 1816, quoted in Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment
This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no
longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for
corporations.
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876
It is inaccurate to say that I hate
everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common
decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
US
The idea that you can merchandise
candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes
like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~
Adlai Stevenson, speech,
Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
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Politics has
become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. Will Rogers
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic
woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still
forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security,
unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would
not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter
group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L.
Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas
Dwight David Eisenhower Excerpt of letter to his brother. 11.08.1954
