Reading Paul Krugman's Conscience of a Liberal on the tube – yes, I know, two years late but he suffers from his audience thinking they've read everything in the New York Times column already – and found this terrific quotation from FDR's 1936 Madison Square Garden speech: “We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.”

Anybody have other apt historical quotes to offer?

I plan to post more on the Krugman book when I've finished it. It's the least I can do for a writer who uses 'whom' and does so correctly eg p 57.

Also upcoming: comments on The Age of Wonder by Richard Homes, and an interview with John Kay about his new book The Long and Short of It.