"The real truth of the matter is...that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson..."
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, ca. 1936
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961
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