“If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.” IfsWisdomPoliticsEconomyRegardSlavePopulationLiberalismWagesEmployers Book:Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology Source: Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology
“Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.” WayMeanWisdomPoliticsWealthEconomyFiveEconomicPromisePercentPopulationShipsMessWelfareLiberalismPerpetualInflationProposalDependencyMorbidDisruptiveSubsidiesArmament Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.” WritingDoeArtRealAbleSchoolPoliticsSidesPoorPartyCrimePolicyPropertySlavePopulationConservativeBrandsIndianGenerousImmigrantsCherishAspireModeratesProposeConservative Party Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.” PeopleIfsWellsHelpingRealityKidsWantedJobsPoliticsCommunityDifferencesWorkPoorMoneyEducationClassPovertyMiddleCarPolicyStudentsCollegeAmountOffersShotsProgramBiggerMajorityStrategyPropertyPopulationAccessExtrasGuaranteesReliefMiddle ClassPoor PeopleLoanSmall AmountsHelp The PoorStudent LoanHelp Poor People Author:Megan McArdle
“If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.” IfsStatesWould BePoliticalTurnsPoliticsProcessReligiousUnitedUnited StatesAngryPopulationElitesUnfairImmoralExtremismRipeUnstableUneducatedPolitical Extremism Author:Charles Ferguson
“The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population.” IfsWellsMayRealStatesFacesPoliticalPoliticsNationsChallengesWealthUnitedUnited StatesPositionFairsPatternsPopulationCurrentsEducatedConcentrationSteadyProsperousOligarchyWell EducatedConcentration Of Wealth Author:Charles Ferguson
“The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.” NeedsShouldLooksStatesGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsInterestViewsClassAdvantageDirectInstitutionsPopulationProtectionEducatedWelfareAgencyLook UpServingClasses Of Society Author:Otto von Bismarck
“The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.” IfsLongHandsGovernmentLawPoliticsEconomyMassPropertyPopulationTendenciesLiberalismDependentAcceptableRapidsAccumulation Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster