All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share
“French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin-American, the German, the Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and warrior. In the place of honor in… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York…It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share
“In a little while it was taken up in the streets and along the countryside. All through the North and in some of the… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share