Alex Martinez

“the excessive wealth in the hands of the few” coexisting with the “extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness of the many, a maldistribution of property” sealed by the “influence of money…growing greater and greater…in Congress, in state legislatures, in city councils, in the courts, in the political conventions.” “This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer,” he wrote. “It is a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.”
― Jack Beatty, Age of Betrayal

“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part . . . and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers