Look at you; you're on The New Democracy, considered the most brilliant weekly in the country, read by the men who do things and all that. What's your business? Why, to be as clever, as interesting, and as brilliantly cynical as possible about every man, doctrine, book, or policy that is assigned you to deal with. The more strong lights, the more spiritual scandal you can throw on the matter, the more money they pay you, the more the people buy the issue.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher-a Roose…

And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed..…

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of…

The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, w…