I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of… — 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 Image
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 Image
A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
