5 Frederick Lewis Allen Quotes

Frederick Lewis Allen quotes

1. Wilson was a visionary who liked to identify himself with 'forward-looking man'; Harding ... was as old-fashioned as those wooden Indians which used to stand in front of cigar stores.... Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

1. Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

2. It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

3. We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.

4. Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.