Ignatius L. Donnelly

“The fact is, the whole world is a cemetery. It is strewn with the dead of the past. The great flood was the broom of God.”

“Plato's story is not, as has been fondly believed, a mere fable, but a veritable history.”

“That there once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island, which was the remnant of an Atlantic continent, and known to the ancient world as Atlantis.”

“Francis Bacon, of St. Albans, was the greatest and most highly accomplished man who ever lived.”

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin.”

“The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty.”

“Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench.”

“The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists.”

“From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires.”

“The public school is the cornerstone of our liberties.”

“We believe that the power of government...should be expanded...to the end that oppression, injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land.”

“We seek to restore the government of the republic to the hands of the 'plain people' with which class it originated.”

“Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivalent is robbery.”