The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . 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.

they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

When politics degrades itself to political adventurism the nation would be on the calamitous road to inevitable disaster and ruination.

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[<i>Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States</i>, August 8, 1950]

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

When will my country die for me?

We’re in bad shape as a country. We’re suffering from the collapse of both political parties. They’re bought out. They’re owned by corporate America, lock, stock, and barrel. The media is sold out. The corporate dominant culture, which is driven by the market, the bottom line, sells out everything.

To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Until Americans stop getting distracted by the Republicans v/s Democrats melodrama, America will move forward towards war, empire & eventually collapse.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.