Hiram Wesley Evans Quotes

Populism is dangerous.

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbot, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

We quarrel with no man for being a foreigner, but we recognize the moral right in no class of American citizens to train up their children to be foreigners, and then to claim for them all the rights, franchises, and immunities of American citizens.

[Referring to Italian immigrants:] What did they come here for? Why do not they go back [to Italy] and stay there?

It is often not even wise to try to make an American of the best of aliens.

While the American can out-work the alien, the alien can so far under-live the American as to force him out of all competitive labor.

Where is the true-hearted American whose cheek does not tingle with shame to see our highest and most courted foreign missions filled by men of foreign birth to the exclusion of the native-born?

[Referring to Italian-Americans:] ...predominantly our murderers and bootleggers ... foreign spawn do not appreciate this country.

No encouragement must be given to social and political organizations or methods which perpetuate in this country foreign ideas and customs. An Irish-American, a German-American, or a French-American vote is an intolerable anomaly.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol, and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.

... a secret weapon of a foreign ideology.

Today's terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with virtually any weapon

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells

Propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle....the only effective weapon against propaganda on behalf of one policy seems to be propaganda on behalf of an alternative.

Our own temperate blood, schooled to self-possession and the measured conduct of self-government, is receiving a constant infusion and yearly experiencing a partial corruption of foreign blood.

If the history of hyperpowers has shown anything, it is the danger of xenophobic backlash. Time and again, past world-dominant powers have fallen precisely when their core groups turned intolerant, reasserting their ‘true’ and ‘pure’ identity and adopting exclusionary policies towards ‘unassimilable’ groups.