1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: I believe in shaping the ends of government to protect property as well as human welfare. Normally, and in the long run, the ends are the same; but whenever the alternative must be faced, I am for men and not for property, as you were in the Civil War. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character. Again, I do not have any sympathy with the reformer who says he does not care for dividends. Of course, economic welfare is necessary, for a man must pull his own weight and be able to support his family. I know well that the reformers must not bring upon the people economic ruin, or the reforms themselves will go down in the ruin. But we must be ready to face temporary disaster, whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife. Those who oppose reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
“Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.”
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
Context: Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
“The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.”
Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lsadm10.txt (1873), Ch. II, A General View of Lombard Street
“The times of the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War are over.”
"Polish president warns in Berlin of rebirth of 1930s nationalism" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-poland-president/polish-president-warns-in-berlin-of-rebirth-of-1930s-nationalism-idUSKBN0H51C420140910 (10 September 2014)
On the U.S. Apollo program, press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil (November 1968) as quoted in The Reality of Monarchy (1970) by Andrew Duncan
1960s
Source: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 40
“Through life’s dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.”
Curiosity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
Remark to a neighbor, quoted by John Lewis in Cosmopolitan (1908)
“If Enron had been forced to pay cash dividends, it could never have pulled that caper off!”
Quotes from Crash Proof (2006)
