Quotes from James MacGregor Burns

The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance, or gift," declared FDR, "is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people," adding that "inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government.

She learned as she led, and led as she learned.

American whites somehow were able collectively to love liberty, recognize the evils of slavery, and tolerate slavery, all at the same

its major respects the national party is a holding company for complex and interlacing clusters of local groups

licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.

Millions of Republican fliers openly jeered at the poor, accusing FDR of providing "Free lunch to Hoboes, Relief Clients, Underprivileged Transients, and others who won't work.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.