Mason Cooley Quotes
Money: power at its most liquid.
Cooley, Mason. City Aphorisms. Pascal Press, 1984-1993.
The majority of the Supreme Court has voted 5-4 that a corporation cannot be limited in the amount of money it spends on an election campaign as curtailing the money that is spend is tantamount to curtailing the amount of speech and spending money to elect a candidate is a form of political speech. Stevens made a major distinction between money and speech and challenged the logic that conflated the two. The nation was polarized on this issue, with liberals and conservatives on both sides of the question.
In Rhodes’ era money not only bought and influenced politicians but it enabled rich people and their companies to have their own armies and follow their own foreign policy. The British government has a long history of finding a proper balance of control over British wealthy men and her companies doing everything from enforcing the law to invading other countries. Without the companies, the management of the huge empire would have been too expensive and with them, the citizens and the government lost control of foreign policy. In the end, the latter was unacceptable and the British Empire was just too Expensive to maintain where so any nations wanted independence.
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford.
