
“Rise and fall of a business,” Monterey Herald, December 30, 2000
2000s
Letter 24, 1.
Letters, Book VI
Quam multum interest quid a quoque fiat!
“Rise and fall of a business,” Monterey Herald, December 30, 2000
2000s
“Everyone performs bad actions… A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Quoted in The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (1930), by Florence Emily Hardy, ch. 17, p. 212
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 15
His opinion on the loyalty of Zionists to the United States
Willard Hotel speech (1961)
15 January 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.”
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXXIII, Section 4, p. 375
“There are those in this country who threaten direct action to force their will, upon a majority.”
Woodrow Wilson: "7th Annual Message", December 2, 1919. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29560#axzz2g0trF1OV
1910s
Context: There are those in this country who threaten direct action to force their will, upon a majority. Russia today, with its blood and terror, is a painful object lesson of the power of minorities. It makes little difference what minority it is; whether capital or labor, or any other class; no sort of privilege will ever be permitted to dominate this country. We are a partnership or nothing that is worth while. We are a democracy, where the majority are the masters, or all the hopes and purposes of the men who founded this government have been defeated and forgotten. In America there is but one way by which great reforms can be accomplished and the relief sought by classes obtained, and that is through the orderly processes of representative government. Those who would propose any other method of reform are enemies of this country. America will not be daunted by threats nor lose her composure or calmness in these distressing times. We can afford, in the midst of this day of passion and unrest, to be self - contained and sure. The instrument of all reform in America is the ballot. The road to economic and social reform in America is the straight road of justice to all classes and conditions of men. Men have but to follow this road to realize the full fruition of their objects and purposes. Let those beware who would take the shorter road of disorder and revolution. The right road is the road of justice and orderly process.