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- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.
- Hilton Kramer, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine
- The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
- Frank A. Vanderlip, From Farm Boy to Financier, chapter 25, 1935
- One of the greatest disservices you can do to a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
- Jesse H. Jones, The New York Times Magazine, July 2, 1939
- If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), Fifth annual address to Congress, December 13, 1793
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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