Power is always stealing from the many to the few

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Speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
on his resolutions in reference to the war with Mexico.
Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 4, 1848.

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Reducing this thought to an anxious motto, Jackson’s first party newspaper, the United States Telegraph, warned on its masthead that “Power is always stealing from the many to the few,” and pledged Jackson’s presidency to an endless struggle against this nefarious tendency.

United States Telegraph I, 1 (February 6, 1826), 1

JSTOR, Andrew Jackson's Populism