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Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

— Henry Demarest Lloyd Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

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

Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

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

Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

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.

Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

It illustrates what Ruskin calls the "morbid" character of modern business that the history of its most brilliant episodes must be studied in the vestibules of the penitentiary.

Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894)

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