He believed that rank without power was a sham.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.
The affair made men feel larger than life.
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.
The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.
Society's revenge matched its fright.
He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
