In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.