“Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.”

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part IV: A Few Greats, Louis XIV

Source: (1974), Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, Redistribution and Property Rights, p. 169

Source: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 34–39

Thomas Jefferson's First State of the Union Address (8 December 1801)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)

"The Vita Activa", p. 158. First published in The New Yorker (18 October 1958)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 38
Context: St. Paul earned his living most of the time by hard labor and constantly reminded his converts that they must not defraud each other, but love one another and work with their own hands. The same rule of life is applied by the laws governing the early monastic orders.

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

On the Treaty of Versailles, as quoted in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (1946) by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, p. 754.