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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for safety of my country; 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 a few hands, and the Republic destroyed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864
Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.
FREDERICK F. REICHHELD, The Loyalty Effect
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
EDWARD THURLOW, as quoted in Poynder's Literary Extracts
They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
EDWARD COKE, "The Case of Sutton's Hospital," The Reports of Sir Edward Coke
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
WOODROW WILSON, "The Old Order Changeth," The New Freedom
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