This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie." - Austin O'Malley
"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half." - Karl Kraus
"The World War in which we are engaged in is on such a tremendous scale that we must readjust practically the whole nation's social and economic structure from a peace to a war basis. It devolves upon liberty-loving citizens, and particularly the workers of this country, to see to it that the spirit and the methods of democracy are maintained within our own country while we are engaged in a war to establish them in international relations. The fighting and the concrete issues of the war are so removed from our country that not all of our citizens have a full understanding of the principles of autocratic force which the Central Powers desire to substitute for the real principles of freedom." - Samuel Gompers