Daniel Flanagan

“The almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis is one thing: debt.”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

“Ironically, the Italians, the inventors of Roman numerals, took a great leap forward in business and mathematics when they became the first in Christian Europe to abandon the Roman system and use Hindu/Arabic numbers.”
― Mark Kurlansky, Paper: Paging Through History

“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

“Bombay that morning of 28 February 1948, Platt and his men had put the final full stop to the British imperial adventure. Twenty-five years later, by that”
― Larry Collins, Freedom at Midnight