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  Q[  1]='<B>I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations '
        +'which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid '
        +'defiance to the laws of our country.'
  A[  1]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826), 3-rd President &nbsp;(1801–1809)<BR>Letter to George Logan, 1816'

  Q[  2]='<B>The selfish spirit of commerce...&nbsp; knows no country, and feels no passion '
        +'or principle but that of gain.'
  A[  2]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826), 3-rd President &nbsp;(1801–1809)<BR>Letter to Larkin Smith, 1809'

  Q[  3]='<B>Merchants have no country.&nbsp; The mere spot they stand on does not constitute '
        +'so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gain.'
  A[  3]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson>Thomas Jefferson</A> &nbsp;(1743–1826), 3-rd President &nbsp;(1801–1809)<BR>Letter to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814'

  Q[  4]='<B>There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite '
        +'accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by '
        +'corporations.&nbsp; The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this '
        +'respect.&nbsp; The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of '
        +'abuses.'
  A[  4]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison>James Madison</A> &nbsp;(1751–1836), 4-th President &nbsp;(1809–1817)'

  Q[  5]='<B>In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the '
        +'people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by '
        +'their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporations '
        +'are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their '
        +'decisions.'
  A[  5]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson>Andrew Jackson</A> &nbsp;(1767–1845), 7-th President &nbsp;(1829–1837)'

  Q[  6]='<B>The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought '
        +'itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men, and to relieve '
        +'their distress.&nbsp; But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first '
        +'impoverishes and debases the men who serve it, and then abandons them to be '
        +'supported by the charity of the public.'
  A[  6]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville>Alexis de Tocqueville</A> &nbsp;(1805–1859)<BR><A HREF=\'http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch2_20.htm\'>Democracy in America</A>, 1834'

  Q[  7]='<B>I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased '
        +'exercise of political opinion — the only sure foundation and safeguard of '
        +'republican government — would be exposed by any further increase of the already '
        +'overgrown influence of corporate authorities.'
  A[  7]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren>Martin Van Buren</A> &nbsp;(1782–1862), 8-th President &nbsp;(1837–1841)'

  Q[  8]='<B>The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep\'s throat, for which the sheep thanks '
        +'the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as '
        +'the destroyer of liberty.'
  A[  8]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865), 16-th President &nbsp;(1861–1865)'

  Q[  9]='<B>We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end.&nbsp; It '
        +'has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood...&nbsp; It has indeed been a '
        +'trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching '
        +'that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.'
        +'<BR><BR>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 aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.'
        +'<BR><BR>I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, '
        +'even in the midst of war.&nbsp; God grant that my suspicions may prove '
        +'groundless.'
  A[  9]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>Abraham Lincoln</A> &nbsp;(1809–1865), 16-th President &nbsp;(1861–1865)<BR><A HREF=\'http://www.ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.html\'>Letter to Colonel William F. Elkins</A>, 11/21/1864<BR>&nbsp;(Note: <A HREF=\'http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln\'>Wikipedia</A> considers this quote to be <A HREF=\'http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#.22Misattributed.22\'>misattributed</A> to Lincoln)'

  Q[ 10]='<B>As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of '
        +'trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the '
        +'rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel.&nbsp; Corporations, which '
        +'should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the '
        +'people, are fast becoming the people\'s masters.'
  A[ 10]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland>Grover Cleveland</A> &nbsp;(1837–1908), 22-nd President &nbsp;(1885–1889)<BR>and 24-th President &nbsp;(1893–1897)<BR><A HREF=\'http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/projects/presproject/idgrant/sou_pages/cleveland4su.html\'>Annual message to Congress</A>, 12/03/1888'

  Q[ 11]='<B>I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contributing to the '
        +'campaign expenses of any party.&nbsp; Let individuals contribute as they desire; '
        +'but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making '
        +'contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.'
  A[ 11]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1898–1919), 26-th President &nbsp;(1901–1909)'

  Q[ 12]='<B>The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest '
        +'such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give '
        +'to the sovereign — that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a '
        +'whole — some effective power of supervision over their corporate use.&nbsp; In '
        +'order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation '
        +'should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong '
        +'enough to control its conduct.'
  A[ 12]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1898–1919), 26-th President &nbsp;(1901–1909)'

  Q[ 13]='<B>Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no '
        +'allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.&nbsp; To destroy '
        +'this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt '
        +'business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.'
  A[ 13]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1898–1919), 26-th President &nbsp;(1901–1909)<BR>04/19/1906'

  Q[ 14]='<B>It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which '
        +'is unnecessary as regards small business.&nbsp; All business must be conducted '
        +'under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly.&nbsp; But a '
        +'wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked '
        +'little interest.&nbsp; \'Big business\' in the past has been responsible for much '
        +'of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.'
  A[ 14]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1898–1919), 26-th President &nbsp;(1901–1909)'

  Q[ 15]='<B>The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may '
        +'give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, '
        +'we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition '
        +'which shall make private initiative difficult.&nbsp; It is of the utmost '
        +'importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just '
        +'as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period '
        +'which has been the glory of America\'s industrial history...'
  A[ 15]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1898–1919), 26-th President &nbsp;(1901–1909)'

  Q[ 16]='<B>We stand for the rights of property, but we stand even more for the rights of '
        +'man.&nbsp; We will protect the rights of the wealthy man, but we maintain that '
        +'he holds his wealth subject to the general right of the community to regulate '
        +'its business use as the public welfare requires.'
  A[ 16]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt>Theodore Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1898–1919), 26-th President &nbsp;(1901–1909)'

  Q[ 17]='<B>For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new '
        +'dynasties.&nbsp; New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over '
        +'material things.&nbsp; Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, '
        +'new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital — all undreamed '
        +'of by the Fathers — the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this '
        +'royal service.'
  A[ 17]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1882–1945), 32-nd President &nbsp;(1933–1945)'

  Q[ 18]='<B>The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and '
        +'the fictitious person called a corporation.&nbsp; They differ in the purpose for '
        +'which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the '
        +'restraints under which they act.'
  A[ 18]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan>William Jennings Bryan</A> &nbsp;(1860–1925), Secretary of State &nbsp;(1913–1915)'

  Q[ 19]='<B>A corporation has no rights except those given it by law.&nbsp; It can exercise '
        +'no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and '
        +'the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not '
        +'private advantage being the end in view.'
  A[ 19]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan>William Jennings Bryan</A> &nbsp;(1860–1925), Secretary of State &nbsp;(1913–1915)'

  Q[ 20]='<B>The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those '
        +'who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too '
        +'little.'
  A[ 20]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1882–1945), 32-nd President &nbsp;(1933–1945)'

  Q[ 21]='<B>It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new '
        +'economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government '
        +'itself.&nbsp; They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal '
        +'sanction.&nbsp; In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, '
        +'their labor, and their property.&nbsp; And as a result the average man once more '
        +'confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.'
  A[ 21]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1882–1945), 32-nd President &nbsp;(1933–1945)'

  Q[ 22]='<B>The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the '
        +'business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was '
        +'nobody\'s business.&nbsp; They granted that the government could protect the '
        +'citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do '
        +'anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to '
        +'live.'
        +'<BR><BR>Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half '
        +'affair.&nbsp; If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the '
        +'polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.'
  A[ 22]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1882–1945), 32-nd President &nbsp;(1933–1945)'

  Q[ 23]='<B>These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of '
        +'America.&nbsp; What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their '
        +'power.&nbsp; Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of '
        +'this kind of power.&nbsp; In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the '
        +'Constitution.&nbsp; In their blindness they forget what the flag and the '
        +'Constitution stand for.&nbsp; Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not '
        +'tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and '
        +'the over-privileged alike.'
  A[ 23]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</A> &nbsp;(1882–1945), 32-nd President &nbsp;(1933–1945)'

  Q[ 24]='<B>It\'s a recession when your neighbor loses his job. '
        +'<BR><BR>It's a depression when you lose yours.'
  A[ 24]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman>Harry Truman</A> &nbsp;(1884–1972), 33-rd President &nbsp;(1945–1953)'

  Q[ 25]='<B>Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the '
        +'individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, '
        +'and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the '
        +'individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities.&nbsp; Democracy is '
        +'based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as '
        +'well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.'
  A[ 25]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman>Harry Truman</A> &nbsp;(1884–1972), 33-rd President &nbsp;(1945–1953)'

  Q[ 26]='<B>In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of '
        +'unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial '
        +'complex.&nbsp; The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists '
        +'and will persist.'
        +'<BR><BR>We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or '
        +'democratic processes.&nbsp; We should take nothing for granted.&nbsp; Only an '
        +'alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge '
        +'industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and '
        +'goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.'
  A[ 26]='</B><A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower>Dwight Eisenhower</A> &nbsp;(1890–1969), 34-th President &nbsp;(1953–1961)'

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