Air Quote by Walter Lippmann

“And yet, Burke might have countered, once the masses were fated by the laws of political economy to toil in misery, what else was…

— Karl Polanyi

“I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men are put into this world, he [the enlightened conservative] realizes, to struggle, to suffer, to contend against the evil that is in their…

— Russell Kirk

“Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but…

— Herman Melville

“Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.”

— Russell Kirk

“Good Timber by Douglas Malloch The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in…

— Douglas Malloch

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

— Anonymous

“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.”

— James Kerr

American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable.…

— Charles M. Schwab

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Man is frail. Man is prone to fallacies, errors, vice, and greed, but good iron never fails. Combine hard iron with a good man…

— John Matthews

“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.... It wasn't only…

— V.S. Naipaul