If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise to it.
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
In the end we will listen to the voice of the machines. We will have to. There is no choice. We will not go back to tallow dips while the great shining wheels are there to bring us light.
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
No truly great man ever thought himself so.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)