As a result of the war, 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 destroyed. I feel at the moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. God grant that my suspicions should prove groundless.

A different wording of the same statement appears in The Conflict of the Ages: The Civic, Social and Economic Problem Analyzed, and a Remedy Suggested (1907), p. 15 | As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, 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 the wealth is aggregated in the hands of the few and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the rebellion. | "Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow," is identified as a "Fake Lincoln quote" by Thomas DiLorenzo in Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (Crown Publishing Group: 2009), p. 31