If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – next year. – Eric Alterman
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. – Herbert Croly
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! well sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave. – George Meredith
