"We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory."

"There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions."

"Creative spirits always anticipate the course of events. They do not wait for the dawn of a new era. They resolutely …"

"History is an endless maze of unrelated happenings, until we divide it up into brief portions in which we discern a c…"

"In the meantime, the real America had awakened, but in its own way. It had awakened, not as a neurasthenic awakes to …"

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."

"It was a Native Son who, when asked by an Englishman, visiting the United States for the first time, to name the Seve…"