Great Throughts Treasury

"First of all, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks, candidates for President and Vice-President, respectively, deny the class struggle and this almost infallibly fixes their status as friends of capital and enemies of labor. They insist that they can serve both; but the fact is obvious that only one can be served and that one at the expense of the other. Mr. RooseveltÂ’s whole political career proves it." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"The right man comes at the right time." - Italian Proverbs

"Who has no money must have no wishes." - Italian Proverbs

"If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it." - J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink." - J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

"A man is free in proportion as his perceptions and his actions express his personality in spite of the variety of forms which perceptions and motives take." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

"I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

"At least for a while the road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien