Criminals Quotes



Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. He was instrumental in being one of the major writers who made the American public aware of the fact that the very wealthy sometimes systematically committed crimes involving money and in much larger crimes than the poor criminals.


This article was published under the name of “A Lover Of Peace” but is generally attributed to Paine. He was publishing in Pennsylvania which had a large Quaker, pacifist population and Paine was urging them to consider being armed.


Roosevelt was on a crusade to eliminate the vicious monopolies and trusts of the time. The number of terms he used to describe them was large but this has become the most memorable and most frequently quoted. See {585244} for some of the other terms he used. While this phrase was original with FDR, his relative, Theodore Roosevelt, used the term “malefactors” in a similar meaning in {585244}.


While not every person in the stock market was dishonest, a large number were, and the system itself was inherently unfair and disadvantaged the average investor. Despite the many reforms attempted over the years, as the 2008 meltdown proved, the same problem was still with us. Capone was essentially right then and even today.


This is a very clear statement of a theory offered by some gun advocates. Opponents observe that if this were true, the parts of the country that had the highest gun ownership would have the lowest gun deaths and crime in general, but that is not true. Obversely, when some jurisdictions like Florida have made guns easier to obtain, the crime rate has not increased as some gun opponents would predict.