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Before the Civil War, Mark Twain would write, “there was nothing resembling a worship of money or its possessor” among Americans. But the politicians and financiers “reversed the commercial morals of the United States. . . . The people had
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Today Mark Twain would be roasted by Trump, Republicans, and Fox News as a Radical Liberal for questioning the theory that capitalistic pursuit of money is America's primary virtue.
“It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
“Mr. Lincoln had no faith and no hope in the usual acceptation of those words,” Mary Lincoln recalled. “He never joined a Church; but still, as I believe, he was a religious man by nature.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
“The world is full of illegitimate children. The world is full of folk whose taste was educated in the gutter. The world is full of people born hating and despising their fellows. To these I love to say: See this man. He was one of you and yet he became Abraham Lincoln.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
“Indeed Republicans were the progressive party, comfortable with the application of federal power in behalf of major national goals: protecting the voting rights of blacks, curbing antitrust abuses, bolstering domestic industry through intrusive”
― President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
― President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
“Before the Civil War, Mark Twain would write, “there was nothing resembling a worship of money or its possessor” among Americans. But the politicians and financiers “reversed the commercial morals of the United States. . . . The people had desired money before his day,” but now they had been “taught . . . to fall down and worship it.”2”
― Reconstruction: A Concise History
― Reconstruction: A Concise History
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