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Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

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Nature is rich; but everywhere man, the heir of nature, is poor.

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Corporations may have no souls, but they can love each other.

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Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

Believing wealth to be good, the people believed the wealthy to be good. But, again in history, power has intoxicated and hardened its possessors, and pharaohs are bred in counting-rooms as they were in palaces.

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