Henry Demarest Lloyd Quotes
Our civilization is built on competition, and competition evolves itself crime to so acute an infatuation has the lunacy of self-interest carried our dominant opinion.
Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903 Journalist & Writer, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894
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This view of the world as a zero sum game and the contrasting view of growth producing a win-win situation define the major contrasting political and economic views argued to this day.
He was referring to the arch conservative isolationists who did not want to spend any Federal money to strengthen the armed forces and their weaponry.
In 1811 Calhoun was a freshman congressman. Congress was considering raising 10,000 men to resist the encroachments of Great Britain. The large cost of the enterprise was preventing the measure from passing. Calhoun objected to considering the cost factor at all:
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
At the time the Puerto Rican right wing distrusted the United States as too accommodating to labor, and the leftists saw American progressivism as a way of building an alliance between Puerto Rican and American labor movements.
Henry Demarest Lloyd was a 19th-century American progressive political activist and pioneer muckraking journalist. He is best remembered for his exposés of the Standard Oil Company, which were written before Ida M. Tarbell's series for McClure's Magazine.
