Who said this?

[NNN0LHI]

"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 the war, corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed."

[ewagner]

1. Was that Eisenhower's farewell speech? n/t

[NNN0LHI]

3. No. Sir n/t

[Mad Cow Doc]

8. Luke Sky walker????

The suspense is killing me.

[salinen]

2. PeeWee Herman?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Abraham Lincoln

[Dudley_DUright]

6. Correct

Abraham Lincoln, 1864 (Of course I cheated with Google)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Years ago when I read "When Corporations Rule the World"

Kortsen had attributed the quote to another author and a university traced it back to Lincoln.

[Dudley_DUright]

10. Wow, good memory

I usually can remember Einstein quotes, since I have a whole book of them and use them often, but that is about it.

[NNN0LHI]

7. You got it n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. Hint: It was a Republican n/t

[scarletwoman]

11. It's attributed to Abrahm Lincoln,

but I've found quite a bit of research debunking it. The alleged letter in which Lincoln was supposed to have written this has never been found.

It's a fascinating statement, but there's no proof anywhere that it's really from Lincoln. One researcher theorized that it was written by someone in response to the 1877 Santa Clara Railroad case (the one that gave corporations expanded rights under the 14th Amendment) who passed it off as a Lincoln quote to give it more cachet.

We must remember, hoaxes DO pre-date the internet!

sw

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. No the rumor was that it wasn't Lincoln

The quote appeared in a book written about Lincoln by his former law partner.

[scarletwoman]

13. Yeah, the quote was in a book

and the quote was supposedly from a letter written by Lincoln. But the letter itself has never been found, there is only the law partner's word for it that Lincoln wrote those words.

I spent a long time trying to track down some confirmation of this quote being truly Lincoln's words. It was a couple years ago, so I don't remember all the details of who said what, etc. All I can tell you is that all the serious Lincoln scholars were pretty unanimous in stating that there is no real proof to tie that quote to Lincoln -- that is, the letter in which those words supposedly appeared has never been found.

We have only the law parner's word that such a letter was written -- sorry, that is not proof.

sw