Sublime

In the heat of the struggle each partisan is hurried beyond the limits of his opinions by the opinions and the excesses of his opponents, until he loses sight of the end of his exertions, and holds a language which disguises his real sentiments or secret instincts.

He had written on the statute books of New York such a sweep of social welfare statutes that Oscar Handlin could say that they “made the most difficult state the best-governed one in the Union…[and] awakened the conscience of the nation to the needs of the urban working people.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, as President, was to say that “practically all

FDR’s view of Tammany eventually caught up with the times. When Charles Murphy died in 1924, Roosevelt said feelingly, “In Mr. Murphy’s death, the New York City Democratic organization has lost probably the strongest and wisest leader it has had in generations.… He was a genius who kept harmony, and at the same time recognized that the world moves

the orientation of the Hitlerite masses, though violently anti-capitalist, is by no means socialist,

L’homme d’autrefois ne ressemblait pas à celui d’aujourd’hui. Il n’eût jamais fait partie de ce bétail que les démocraties ploutocratiques, marxistes ou racistes nourrissent pour l’usine et le charnier. Il n’eût jamais appartenu aux troupeaux que nous voyons s’avancer tristement les uns contre les autres, en masses immenses derrière leurs machines,

Andrea Toma-celli, who had used Boldrino to help him restore order in the Papal States, decided that he would anticipate Boldrino’s next desertion and win popularity with the local inhabitants by having him murdered at a dinner party in Macerata. Bold-rino’s company is said to have carried the body of their murdered leader with them for two years a

it is therefore very difficult to discover a medium between the sovereignty of all and the absolute power of one man: