Its time for , "Name that far out lefty"

[TinaTyson]

1)

-I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our
moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our
government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of
our country

-The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no
passion or principle but that of gain

-No nation however powerful, any more than an individual, can
be unjust with impunity. Sooner or later, public opinion, an
instrument merely moral in the beginning, will find occasion
physically to inflict its sentences on the unjust... The lesson
is useful to the weak as well as the strong.

-...laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God

2)
-the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labor and stock must... be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality... This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty...

...wages and profit, indeed, are every-where in Europe extremely different... (arises) partly from policy of Europe, which no-where leaves things at perfect liberty.


Name those lefties. No fair using Google, but probably not hard anyway.
Are these ideas still relevant today? How about our culture? Does it embrace these ideas? Should it?

[TinaTyson]

1. At the risk of sounding like Ferris Bueller's teacher.

Anyone?

Anyone?

:)

[JHB]

6. Abe Lincoln & Adam Smith

Abe was anti-corporate, and Smith thought that if any two merchants were so much as in the same room together, you could assume they were discussing ways to restrain trade in their favor.

On Edit: didn't scroll down to look, got it half-right.

[The Magistrate]

2. Messers. Jefferson And Smith, Ma'am

On cursory examination.

A favorite of mine from Mr. Smith is this: "The laboring class is of necessity the largest portion of society, and it is nonesense to maintain that what is beneficial to the greatest portion can be injurious to the whole."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[TinaTyson]

4. Yippie you win the prize.

See ya in the streets.

[TinaTyson]

3. In case anyone read it and was wondering.

1) Thomas Jefferson

2) Adam Smith


Off north to the protests. Hope everyone has a safe, fun time.

[burrowowl]

5. You should do

some Lincoln quotes next time
And maybe bits from the Bill of Rights.
Welcome to DU!:toast:

[Demoiselle]

7. If Teddy Roosevelt didn't say #1....

...he said something very similar!
God, don'tcha just love radical leftists!
Great post, by the way.