Lincoln warned us

[ohheckyeah]

"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood ... 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. As a result of 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. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless."
President Abraham Lincoln
The passage appears in a letter from Lincoln to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864, Hertz II, 954, in Archer H. Shaw, The Lincoln Encyclopedia (New York: Macmillan, 1950), p. 40

[proud patriot]

1. this made me cry just now

:-(

[ohheckyeah]

2. It's pretty sad that the

corporations have been screwing our country over since at least the time of Lincoln. The founding fathers knew what they were doing when they limited corporations to those who served the public good.

[krispos42]

3. Too much money in the hands of too few is as big a threat as any foreign nation

For the rotting away of our economy and infrastructure and social stability is what lets those foreign threats conquer.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Lincoln did not write this

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln.asp

[ohheckyeah]

5. This says it is authentic:

http://www.ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.html

As does this book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Kp_USqHUrl0C&pg=PA396&dq=Abraham+Lincoln:+A+New+Portrait,+%28Vol.+2%29&hl=en&ei=22Y_Tt7KLePm0QH97_jYDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=We%20may%20congratulate%20ourselves%20that%20this%20cruel%20war%20is%20nearing%20&f=false