20th century Quote by Richard Hofstadter

“FDR is the canonized hero of American progressivism. Subsequent Democratic presidents, from Lyndon Johnson to Obama, have all sought to expand the power of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage…

— Richard Hofstadter

“Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to…

— Paul Ham

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…

— Scott Anderson

“He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike,…

— Jordan L. Hawk

“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“[John Stuart] Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Victory takes sides on people who are more compatible with nature and future.”

— Toba Beta

“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with organization and…

— David Grann

“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.”

— Peter Prange

“Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but…

— Niall Ferguson

“A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.”

— M.F. Moonzajer