Is Fidel Castro Outside or Part of Mainstream Thinking? A Selection of Quotes
May 4, 2016
Is Fidel Castro Outside or Part of Mainstream Thinking? A Selection of Quotes
by Nelson Valdes
Neither is it always certain that, in the splendid situation which we aim at, those real and satisfactory pleasures can be enjoyed with the same security as in the humble one which we are so very eager to abandon. examine the records of history, recollect what has happened within the circle of your own experience, consider with attention what has been the conduct of almost all the greatly unfortunate, either in private or public life, whom you may have either read of, or heard of, or remember; and you will find that the misfortunes of by far the greater part of them have arisen from their not knowing when they were well, when it was proper for them to sit still and to be contented.
-Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.
A bold and aggressive plutocracy has usurped the Government and is using it as a policeman to enforce its insolent decrees. It has filled the Senate with its adherents, it controls the popular branch of the Legislature by filling the Speakers chair with its representatives, and it has not hesitated to tamper with our Court of last resort.
James B. Weaver, 1892 Populist presidential nominee.
Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress and touches even the ermine of the bench. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the Republic and endanger liberty.
National Platform of the Populist Party, 1892
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