Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Samuel Gompers

In my opinion, we have been tolerant too long of men who have gone about the country declaring the size of their hearts, and repeatedly offering up their necks for the hangmen's noose as their stock in trade for practical work in the labor movement.

Democracy | Freedom | Labor | Nations | Right |

Samuel Gompers

The history of labor is littered with the skeletons of organizations done to death because of hasty strikes gone into, for the best of reasons but unprepared.

Control | Democracy | Life | Life | Men | Truth |

Samuel Gompers

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Democracy | Desire | Fighting | Force | Peace | Principles | Spirit | Understanding | War | World |

Simeon Strunsky

The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would

Democracy | Time | Understand |

Simone Weil

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Absolute | Abstract | Age | Capitalism | Democracy | Ideas | Means | Play | Principles | Sacrifice | Science | Time | Universe | Words |

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl of Bewdley

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion

Democracy | Loss | Think |

Robert Bellarmine, fully Saint Robert Bellarmine

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Change | Democracy | Government | People | Reason | Government |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals....What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man.

Democracy | Will |

Ted Sorensen, fully Theodore Chalkin "Ted" Sorensen

There was nothing like that three-four year period where, just the two of us, we were traveling across the United States. That's when I got to know the man.

Democracy | Good | People |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Better | Cause | Delusion | Democracy | Destroy | Effort | Evil | Experience | Failure | Good | Greed | Liberty | Men | Mind | Power | Present | Property | Reason | Service | Slavery | Wrong | Failure |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.

Democracy | Distinction | Experiment | Reward | Sense | Leadership |

Thomas Jefferson

A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

Democracy | Mob | Nothing | People | Rights |

Thomas Jefferson

The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposition, and pursuing a conduct, conciliatory and friendly to all nations, has been sincerely entertained and faithfully followed. It was dictated by the principles of humanity, the precepts of the gospel, and the general wish of our country, and it was not to be doubted that the Society of Friends, with whom it is a religious principle, would sanction it by their support.

Democracy | Will | Work |

Thomas Jefferson

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but by representatives chosen by themselves, that is to say, by every man of ripe years and sane mind, who contributes either by his purse or person to the support of his country.

Defeat | Democracy | Government | Lending | Revolution | Will | Government |

Thomas Merton

I am earth, earth. My heart's love bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air in which my own appointed place, field and valley stand reflected

Chance | Democracy | Ideals | Law | Present | Right | Selfishness | Society | Wonder | Society |

William Collins

You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten the perfect simplicity of being one and the beautiful complexity introduced by two.

Democracy | Words |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.

Democracy | Man |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Once a man wants to hold a Public Office, he is absolutely no good for honest work.

Democracy | Government | World | Government |

Wendell Lewis Willkie

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Defense | Democracy |

Wendell Lewis Willkie

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

Change | Democracy | Present |