When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.