Kap. ENTWEDER - ODER, II. Die Aristokratie der Beziehungen, S. 464
Original englisch: "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."
Atlas Shrugged
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Quelle: Kontraste - Das Magazin aus Berlin vom 1. August 2002: Lobbyisten ohne Skrupel - Wie unabhängig sind Politiker? rbb-online.de http://www.rbb-online.de/kontraste/ueber_den_tag_hinaus/demokratie/lobbyisten_ohne_skrupel.html
Zitiert in Al Gore: Angriff auf die Vernunft (The Assault on Reason). Aus dem Englischen von Enrico Heinemann und Friedrich Pflüger. Goldmann, München 2007, S. 117, ISBN 978-3-442-15543-9
Original englisch: "We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. …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 the 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." - In: Archer H. Shaw: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference, Macmillan, New York 1950 (Reprint 1980), S. 40 http://books.google.de/books?ei=F3t4T5DjKJCx8QO7uJy-DQ&sqi=2&hl=de&id=nGMqAAAAYAAJ&dq=lincoln+encyclopedia+william+elkins&q=elkins#search_anchor, mit der Quellenangabe: To William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864. Hertz II, 954 = Emanuel Hertz: Abraham Lincoln - A New Portrait (Vol. 2), Liveright, New York 1931. S. 954 http://archive.org/stream/abrahamlincolnne02hert#page/954, wo jedoch weder William F. Elkins, noch ein Datum genannt werden, noch sonst irgendetwas zur Herkunft des Zitats mitgeteilt wird.
Bereits als das Zitat 1896 von Anhängern des US-Präsidentschafts-Kandidaten der Demokratischen Partei und der populistischen People's Party William Jennings Bryan verwendet wurde, bezeichnete John Nicolay, einer von Lincolns Sekretären, es als dreiste Fäschung: "This alleged quotation from Mr. Lincoln is a bald, unblushing forgery. The great President never said it or wrote it, and never said or wrote anything that by the utmost license could be distorted to resemble it." (A Popocratic Forgery; Remarks Attributed to Lincoln Pronounced Spurious. New York Times, October 3, 1896 pdf http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0DEFDE133BEE33A25750C0A9669D94679ED7CF). Lincolns Sohn Robert Todd Lincoln nannte es in einem Brief an Henry Clifford Stuart vom 12. März 1917 eine schamlose Erfindung, "an impudent invention" (Thomas F. Schwartz: Lincoln Never Said That. Newletter Abraham Lincoln Association 1999 1-1.pdf http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Newsletters/1-1.pdf p. 4-6). Als "spurious" (gefälscht) bezeichnet es auch Appendix II der Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 8, p. 589. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;type=simple;rgn=div1;q1=corporations%20enthroned;singlegenre=All;view=text;subview=detail;sort=occur;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A875#hl1. Siehe auch Paul F. Boller Jr., John George: They Never Said It - A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions. Oxford University Press 1989, p. 85 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=yRCRvzT2hnMC&pg=PA85 und Merrill D. Peterson: Lincoln in American Memory. Oxford University Press 1994 p. 160 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=EADk9ZIMJXEC&pg=PA160 & p. 340.
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Original engl.: " The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings." - "The decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", chap. XV http://books.google.de/books?id=PrwWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA450&dq=theologian
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