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3. The founders try to warn us.........

Reply to chalmers (Original post)

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 10:02 AM

Dec 2015

There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money. ...Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall be at the same time a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places ...renders the British government so tempestuous...[and is the true source] of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation [and] distracting its councils... B. Franklin.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/elections/partysys.html

much more when you open the dates.

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