“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.” MenCharacterPoliticalEconomyIndustryActivitySkillsPropertyBallots Author:Booker T. Washington
“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.” WorldYearsHumansDoeImportantReasonRealityPoliticalSoundProgressEconomicModernIndustryBalanceHumorousPrisonTrainDetailsAppreciationPracticalsFiftyWrestlingSanityHarshMachineryRevivalAutomobilePublic ServiceOpen MindednessCottagesColossalQuaintTelegraphHarsh Reality Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.” IdeasWould BePoliticalPoliticsAcceptingSourceIndustryArgumentSocialistCongressmanTainted Author:Newt Gingrich
“... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.” ThinkingArtWholePoliticalPassionInterestCitiesKnownIndustryEqualDegreesRulingAmusementRuling PassionPolitical Thinking Book:Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson