Amendment 13 Quote by Thaddeus Stevens

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but…

— Edith Wharton

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply,…

— Henry Steele Commager

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

— Adam Conover

“American society was justly famed in the nineteenth century for the richness of its associational life. Indeed, as we have seen, Alexis de Tocqueville…

— Niall Ferguson

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which…

— Erich Fromm

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

“this fear of growing to resemble Europe was part of the reason why the United States in 1910–1920 pioneered a very progressive estate tax…

— Thomas Piketty

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

The two greatest characters in the 19th century are Napoleon and Helen Keller. Napoleon tried to conquer the world by physical force and failed.…

— Anonymous

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

— Trish Regan