Government Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

“There are several dubious assumptions about the early West. One is that it was the home of intractable self-reliance amounting to anarchy, whereas in…

— Wallace Stegner

“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a…

— Joan Didion

Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed would plow…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each…

— Heather Cox Richardson

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

By the 1870s, ex-Confederates had taken their support for Western individualism a step further. They insisted the federal government was actively persecuting Western individuals.

— Heather Cox Richardson

The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and…

— Anand Neelakantan

In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they had to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an…

— Ronald Reagan

Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded…

— Murray Rothbard

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould