Cases Quote by Mark Twain

My husband often remarked what a pity it was that a great country like America, which in Europe is still regarded as such a…

— Grace Kelly

“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

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in…

— Charles M. Schwab

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per…

— Abraham Lincoln

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

— Hillary Clinton

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

“Roughly speaking: more than forty held government bonds. More than twenty were moneylenders. Over fifteen were slave owners. The rest an assortment of land…

— Ed Asner

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the…

— Curt Flood

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I…

— Frederick Douglass

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The suggestion that…

— David Halberstam