This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
Admiration | Business | Consequences | Enemy | Excess | Greed | Man | Perfection | Policy | Property | Regard | Slander | Wealth | Slander | Business |
No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.
Business | Care | Competence | Debt | Defeat | Destiny | Effort | Energy | Honor | Industry | Law | Men | Nations | Nothing | Policy | Power | Prosperity | Struggle | Wealth | Will | Business |
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.
Action | Anger | Censure | Cruelty | Leniency | Man | Men | Power | Public | Thought | Wealth | Wife | Cruelty | Thought |
The growth of cities has gone on beyond comparison faster than the growth of the country, and the upbuilding of the great industrial centers has meant a startling increase, not merely in the aggregate of wealth, but in the number of very large individual, and especially of very large corporate, fortunes. The creation of these great corporate fortunes has not been due to the tariff nor to any other governmental action, but to natural causes in the business world, operating in other countries as they operate in our own.
Change | Control | Government | Man | Means | Order | People | Power | Right | Safe | System | Wealth | Will | Government |
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Action | Administration | Beginning | Business | Control | Existence | Experience | Government | Judgment | Law | Little | Need | Order | Power | Practice | Regulation | Time | Uniformity | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Government | Hardship | Business |
The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.
Chance | Man | Public | Right | Wealth | Will | Worth | Understand |
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; so wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
To say unpleasant things, when we have nice ones,is like eating unripe fruit, ignoring sweet ripe fruits.
There is nothing too difficult to be accomplished when done carefully with unflinching endeavor.
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
I think the truth must now be obvious that our people are too happy at home to enter into regular service, and that we cannot be defended but by making every citizen a soldier, as the Greeks and Romans who had no standing armies; and that in doing this all must be marshaled, classed by their ages, and every service ascribed to its competent class.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Principles | Surrender | Wealth |
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.