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“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal”. –Nicolas Chamfort

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit”. –Samuel Gompers

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded”. –Pope John Paul II

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy”. –J. Paul Getty

“We will go down in history either as the world’s greatest statesmen or its worst villains”. –Hermann Göring

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father”. –Austin O’Malley

“Tin-pot dictators have ravaged Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In the aftermath, they have done more to promote communism than the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, and Mao. They are the worst tyrants of the post-colonial period. They have destroyed time-honored institutions and treated their people like animals”. –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society”. –Peter Kropotkin

“Those who appear most sanctified are the worst”. –Queen Elizabeth I