Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

- Margaret Case Harriman

I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn…

- Margaret Case Harriman

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Refor…

- Margaret Case Harriman

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

- Margaret Case Harriman

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

- Margaret Case Harriman

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on be…

- Margaret Case Harriman

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often ver…

- Margaret Case Harriman

There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routi…

- Margaret Case Harriman

[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman w…

- Margaret Case Harriman