This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, advertising wondrous things.
A son will learn from his father to make a living, a daughter will learn from her mother to cut clothes.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.
Credit | Government | Growth | Opinion | System | Government |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
Earth | Liberty | Nations | Respect | Vision | Wealth | Respect | Leadership |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow. Why? Because the laws of this country do not prevent the strong from crushing the weak. That is the reason, and because the strong have crushed the weak the strong dominate the industry and the economic life of this country. No man can deny that the lines of endeavor have more and more narrowed and stiffened; no man who knows anything about the development of industry in this country can have failed to observe that the larger kinds of credit are more and more difficult to obtain, unless you obtain them upon the terms of uniting your efforts with those who already control the industries of the country; and nobody can fail to observe that any man who tries to set himself up in competition with any process of manufacture which has been taken under the control of large combinations of capital will presently find himself either squeezed out or obliged to sell and allow himself to be absorbed.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Government | Man | Opinion | World | Parting | Government |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum.
Authority | Civilization | Nations | Peace | People | Right | Rights | World |
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.