To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it …

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.
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