Henry M. Leland (1843–1932) American businessman
Source: Master of Precision: Henry M. Leland, 1966, p. 62; About the first motors Leland build for Ransom E. Olds in 1901
Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, 1863, p. 172.
1860s
Henry M. Leland (1843–1932) American businessman
Source: Master of Precision: Henry M. Leland, 1966, p. 62; About the first motors Leland build for Ransom E. Olds in 1901
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Part V: War, §IV
An Autobiography (1977)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: If our political institutions were perfect, they would absolutely prevent the political domination of money in any part of our affairs. We need to make our political representatives more quickly and sensitively responsive to the people whose servants they are. More direct action by the people in their own affairs under proper safeguards is vitally necessary. The direct primary is a step in this direction, if it is associated with a corrupt-services act effective to prevent the advantage of the man willing recklessly and unscrupulously to spend money over his more honest competitor. It is particularly important that all moneys received or expended for campaign purposes should be publicly accounted for, not only after election, but before election as well. Political action must be made simpler, easier, and freer from confusion for every citizen. I believe that the prompt removal of unfaithful or incompetent public servants should be made easy and sure in whatever way experience shall show to be most expedient in any given class of cases.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
Diary of 27 December 1890. Published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences http://books.google.com/books?id=CIsEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270&dq=%22We+are,+as+a+sex,+infinitely+superior+to+men.%22+--&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=%22We%20are%2C%20as%20a%20sex%2C%20infinitely%20superior%20to%20men.%22%20--&f=false By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch. Harper & brothers, 1922. p 270. GoogleBooks URL accessed 18 September 2009.
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli.
Misattributed
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
“If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord.”
Uthman (574–656) Companion of Muhammad and third Rashidun Caliph
Jami al-Uloon wa'l-Hikm, p. 363