“Each man has his own individual right to do as he pleases, but businessmen have no influence over voting. If they did it would be the downfall of the nation.”
—R.K. Mellon, businessman, quoted in Burton Hersh, The Mellon Family, p368.
He was exaggerating, of course, but it wasn’t completely implausible when he said it (the mid-20th century).
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