Francis Bacon Quotes
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
Bacon, Francis. The Essays. "Of Friendship." Edited by Samuel Harvey Reynolds, Clarendon Press, 1890, p. 191.
Taft, the incumbent President, was in a 3 way race against Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. He came in third.
This quotation is classic as it was the first of a series of attacks that have been made on presidents and other politicians by the economic ultra-rightists when the conservatives had disliked the politician’s economic policies. To criticize the ultra-rich and their corporations was promoting class warfare. And that criticism being made public certainly upset the confidence of the rich in the President. When the president pointed out how the average person feels about the rich, to them it was he who was responsible for the mistrust and hatred by talking about them—not them by what they were doing. This same attack has been made against every Democratic President that came thereafter, but it was first used against Republican Theodore Roosevelt. For many Liberals, the way they know that they are starting to succeed with economic reform is when they get attacked for fomenting class warfare.
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, Kt PC QC, also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
