Quotes for All
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York….It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise. Charles A. Beard
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. Charles A. Beard
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. Charles A. Beard
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet … Read more
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it….they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it … Read more
Perpetual war for perpetual peace. Charles A. Beard
Technological civilization… rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches – physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology – is the servant and upholder of this system Charles A. Beard
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. Charles A. Beard
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. Charles A. Beard
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. Charles A. Beard