Quotes from Jeff Guinn

The next day's Tribune took the issue further in an editorial. Its all-capitals headline read "HENRY FORD IS AN ANARCHIST," and went on for nine paragraphs and 502 biting words. Ford was variously described as "deluded," "an ignorant idealist," and "an anarchistic enemy of the nation which protects him in his wealth.

They'd drive to just outside Roxbury and meet Burroughs at Woodchuck Lodge, the property he often wrote about in his books and magazine articles.

In every society there are inequities, and in America the most obvious of these affect people of color and the poor. Demagogues recruit by uniting a disenchanted element against an enemy, then promising to use religion or politics or a combination of the two to bring about rightful change.

At age twelve, his first job was as a railway newspaper boy, hawking wares to passengers on a Midwest rail line. But Edison soon realized he could make more money selling his own newspaper. The preteen began reporting and publishing the Grand Trunk Herald, a gossipy conglomeration of short articles about railroad employees, regular passengers, and bits of news about popular stops and amenities to be found there.

Thank goodness these people have been converted," Felix said with relief after the Saxons let us go. "They're devout enough to send missionaries safely on their way." "It's too bad they're not devout enough to remember the phrase 'Thou shalt not kill,' " I said sadly. "Yes, they let us live, but how many innocent people will die at their hands tomorrow?

when asked his philosophy of life, he replied, "Moderation in all things.

As the frontier contracted and crimes such as rustling began attracting more official notice, "cowboy" became a generic term to describe habitual thugs or lawbreakers.

But in 1621 the Puritan leaders decreed that Christmas would not be celebrated at all in Plymouth.

For rich people, holiday festivities were only beginning on December 25. They would continue enjoying feasts and gifts through Epiphany on January 6—these were the twelve days of Christmas. Poor people went back to work on December 26.

Christmas was not officially restored as a full holiday in Scotland until 1958.

It's not the value of the gift, but the philosophy of the giving and receiving," Francis replied. "It's a hard world, all in all, and to receive a present means someone else cares for you, that you're not alone.

Movies, Burroughs continued, would be the ruin of the American intellect: "The average person goes to the moving-picture theater and looks at senseless films for a couple of hours, and goes away without having really had to use his brain once. . . . In the old days, he might have been spending that time with a book before him, which would have given him more information and would have made him exercise his brain a little to get it.

For at least one day of the year, past quarrels are forgotten and strangers are greeted as friends.

I think they'll get better a lot faster if we don't spend so much time moping.

It is a privilege to help children learn the true meaning of Christmas, which is gratitude to God for sending us his son Jesus, and gaining from that gratitude a sense of love and generosity of spirit toward others,

All there ever seems to be in this world anymore is war and killing, so let's enjoy fellowship and peace here for a little while before we go out into the confusion again.

Jones generally forbade drinking alcohol, but on this night at the Geary Boulevard temple he told the P.C. members that it was all right for once. Each of them drank some, and after their cups were emptied Jones informed them that their wine had been laced with poison—all of them would die within forty-five minutes to an hour. There was no antidote. They were doomed.

Always keep December twenty-fifth special. It works wonders on human hearts, and I think more good is accomplished on that day than is done all the rest of the year.