- "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that
unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ...
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong
it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth
is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
- Abraham Lincoln
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- "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people
tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger
than their democratic State itself. What, in its essence, is Fascism, but
ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling
private power."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and
belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an
ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which
can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert Kennedy
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- Voxfux
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- "If we find our government in all its branches rushing
headlong, like our predecessors, into the arms of monarchy, if we find
they violating our dearest rights, the trial by jury, the freedom of the
press, the freedom of opinion, civil or religious, or opening on our peace
of mind or personal safety the sluices of terrorism, if we see them raising
standing armies, when the absence of all other danger points to these as
the sole objects on which they are to be employed, then indeed let us withdraw
and call the nation to its tents."
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- Posted by Thomas Jefferson @ 11/03/2002 02:01 AM EST
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- http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000041.htm
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