A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
And I don't know what I'd do at a fraternity party. All that might be a little lost on me.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.
Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
A government of laws, and not of men.