When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. – Carl Sandburg
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. – Carl Sandburg
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. – Carl Sandburg
Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank