"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 endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices
of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands
and the Republic is destroyed."
-- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln,
Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: "The Lincoln Encyclopedia",
Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
"The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will
occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions
and moneyed incorporations."
Thomas Jefferson
