Henry Demarest Lloyd quotes

“Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

Source : Henry Demarest Lloyd, Alun Munslow, Owen R. Ashton (1995). “Henry Demarest Lloyd's critiques of American capitalism, 1881-1903”, Edwin Mellen Pr

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“If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

Source : "Wealth Against Commonwealth".

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“The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

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“Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

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“Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

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“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

Source : Henry Demarest Lloyd (1894). “Wealth Against Commonwealth”, p.2, Burned Books Publishing

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“Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.”
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

Source : 1894 Wealth against Commonwealth, ch.1.

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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”

“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

“Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!”

Source : The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.

“He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.”

“Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”

“If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...”

“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.”

“Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.”