Occupation: Historian Birth: November 27, 1874 Death: September 1, 1948
At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to ….
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phra….
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobs….
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power..
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but t….
Killing time is not murder, it is suicide..
A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money..
When its dark enough you can see the stars..
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst ….
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying ….
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses..
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some metic….
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified….
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small..
The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty..
Perpetual war for perpetual peace..
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs..