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Thirty years after drafting proverb

 Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.

 I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
  Thomas Jefferson

 There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.
  Thomas Jefferson

 What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest
  Thomas Carlyle

 Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

 [These hotspots (other than the United States and Japan) also tend to be countries where laws and law enforcement lag behind what is found in Western-style democracies.] Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws, ... But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

 Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

 A lot of businesses in this area are S corporations, and if this ruling would stand and not be corrected, then potentially any time somebody sues or makes a claim against a corporation, they could potentially go after the owners of the corporation.

 Framed in the first three decades after independence, these laws were inspired by completely different mindset, ... These laws were based on ground realities and social conditions of that day, which largely do not exist today.

 If someone said 'corporate social responsibility' five years ago, no one would have known what it meant. Today it is a top priority for a large corporation that has a reputation to watch over. But we can't go out and achieve everything that everyone wants on the first day.

 If you are a corporation, you have to play to the largest audience. It is very dangerous for a corporation to say we want some people to buy our products, but not others. When you talk about marketing to gays and lesbians, there is always a significant layer of politics & (but) from a corporate point of view, there is a very clear business case to be made.

 To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton fr

 You can almost hear those trees talk. You can feel it, the history. When John Hancock, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were signing the Declaration of Independence, this forest was already growing.

 People like me who believe the left can be a moderate force—we have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy had—a life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.

 We are having a debate, a discussion about the laws of another country, ... The Government can't change the laws of Indonesia. We can only put a point of view [across].


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