♦ nivek ♦ Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 "Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked."-- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) American Novelist Source: The American Democrat, 1838 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J...oper.Quote.9325 "Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism." -- Ralph Nader (1934-) American attorney and political activist Source: introduction to The Closed Enterprise System http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/R...ader.Quote.1143 "The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies." -- Samuel P. Hays Source: The Response to Industrialism 1885-1914, p. 26, describing the view of E.L. Godkin, who founded the weekly Nation http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/S...Hays.Quote.D480 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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