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“An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.”

Men Wisdom Happens America Given Conditions Economist Liable

Book:Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

“Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.”

Wisdom School America Mother Girl Reform Shocked Verge

Author:Will Rogers

“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”

Ifs Hard Wisdom America Mother Doubt Determined Checks Ambitious Elephants Charging Rhinos

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.”

Men Wisdom America Politics Responsibility Economy Tendencies Liberalism One Man Power And Responsibility

Book:The American Commonwealth

Source: The American Commonwealth

“The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.”

People States Wisdom Seems Government America Political Politics Given Sides Opinion Economy Effects Europe Expected Contrary Liberalism Firmness Tumult

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"”

“The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.”

People Men Wisdom America Politics Economy Property Every Man Liberalism

Author:Thomas Paine

“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.”

Ifs States Wisdom America Politics Black United Race United States Economy Conditions Revolution Inequality Soil Liberalism Black Race

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?”

Way Giving Wisdom America Beautiful Culture Politics Quality Economy Building Source Higher Civilization Office Architecture Streams Liberalism Why Not Beautiful Life

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.”

Persons Country Wisdom America Given Wealth Chance Share Fairs Productions Equitable

Author:Coretta Scott King