“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 68.

Letter published in the Manchester Advertiser (3 March 1911), quoted in A People's History of the United States (1980) page 345.
Context: Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

Source: Social behavior: Its Elementary Forms, 1961, p. 43 (in 1974 edition)

America and the World War (1915)
1910s

Source: Letters of John Keats

Lindsey Graham about whether he would choose Trump or Cruz for the President of the United States. February 21, 2016
2010s