Citizens united Quote by Jane Mayer

“the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age. Justice”

— Jane Mayer

“there was much to despise about the legislatures of the Gilded Age, which were often severely malapportioned in favor of rural interests, heavily influenced…

— Christopher H. Achen

“And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up…

— Mark Twain

“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he…

— John Galsworthy

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want…

— Jane Mayer

“Gold is reserved for those who know its laws and abide by them.”

— George S. Clason

“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.”

— Selina Todd

“Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom.”

— Vince Flynn

“To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.”

— Isaac Asimov

The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of the rest…

— Ben Fountain

“Freedom should not be sold for all the gold in the world”

— Aesop's Fables Walter Anglicus

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took…

— Carl Andre