The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-in ...house, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take th...eir money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living a...gain. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.... They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »