The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age. — David Brock Copy Share Image
I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken. — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
“the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age. Justice” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, Madame, but the president runs the country, not a factory. Your time is up! So please move along so that… — Rich DiSilvio Copy Share Image
“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can.… — Candida Martinelli Copy Share Image
“A European visitor in the 1880s remarked that the only sense not offended by American cooking was hearing.” — Richard White Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Across the various iterations, the 'real housewives' flaunted their refusal to conform to the happy modern housewife ideal as though they were… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“The country, it seemed, was on the verge of a second civil war, this one over industrial slavery. But Frick was a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“By overturning many of these restrictions, the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)” — Candida Martinelli Copy Share Image
“This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.” — Joanna Shupe Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
“there was much to despise about the legislatures of the Gilded Age, which were often severely malapportioned in favor of rural interests,… — Christopher H. Achen Copy Share Image
Books are not commodities, but the gilded age of treadmill publishing - to which Winfrey has contributed her demeaning sensibility - has… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Prom was more about acting out some weird facsimile of adulthood: dress up like a tacky wedding party, hold hands and behave… — Dave Cullen Copy Share Image
The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Krugman himself acknowledges, “[T]he growth of the U.S. economy during the Long Gilded Age benefited all classes: Most Americans were much better… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent,… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Travel back in time, Laugh till you cry, Dig for buried treasure, Experience the thrill of rock-climbing, Outsmart the crouds, Take in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
![“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this…” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_gilded-age_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg)
![“Krugman himself acknowledges, “[T]he growth of the U.S. economy during the Long Gilded Age benefited all classes: Most Americans were much better off in the 1920s than they had been in the 1870s.”14” quote by Don Watkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/edb/don-watkins-23222_gilded-age_krugman-himself-acknowledges-t-he-growth_2504805.jpg)
