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These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle that quarrel.
-Speech in the Illinois Legislature on the State Bank, Abraham Lincoln, January 11, 1837
from the Collected Speeches and Writing, 1832-1858, Volume 1
Posted on February 4, 2009
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