Citizen Quote by Charles A. Beard

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

Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.

— Charles A. Beard

“The national government belongs to the whole American people,”

— Charles A. Beard

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

A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money.

— Charles A. Beard

“THE COLONIAL PERIOD”

— Charles A. Beard

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

“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

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

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

— Charles A. Beard

“The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”

— Charles A. Beard

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

— Charles A. Beard