Quote #15

An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

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  1. [I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, sui…
  2. Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.
  3. Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
  4. If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
  5. When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire …
  6. Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the n…
  7. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
  8. On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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