Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transp...ortation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equ...als in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good s...ense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When men consider the great pains, industry, and parts, that have, for so many ages, been laid out on the cultivation and advancem...ent of the sciences, and that notwithstanding all this, the far greater part of them remain full of darkness and uncertainty, and that, taking all together, a small portion of them doth supply any real benefit to mankind, otherwise than by being an innocent diversion and amusement: I say, the consideration of all this is apt to throw them into a despondency, and perfect contempt of all study.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it ...to your opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that conve...rts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »