American society Quote by Alain de Botton

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting…

— Paul Johnson

“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.”

— Masha Gessen

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would…

— Dennis Prager

“Roosevelt: “Please for the sake of the future, nail every Communist”

— William L. Shirer

“Roosevelt did an about-face and adopted Hoover’s blueprint for government involvement in the economy—then juiced it on steroids.”

— Brion T. McClanahan

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

— Emanuel Celler

“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism,…

— Albert Jay Nock

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt”

— George Ilian

Curiously, for all the outpourings of scholarship on Theodore Roosevelt, no one had written a book focused directly on his leadership approach, working in…

— James M Strock

“During the Cold War, the Soviet Union never could accomplish that because it was a resource exporter and was in competition with these countries.…

— Gordon Chang

Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in…

— Robert D. Kaplan