William Butler Yeats Quotes
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
This was the classic liberal / conservative dichotomy. Jefferson the visionary with hopes and dreams of the future was willing to spend public money to double the size of the country. Ames a conservative, a member and leading figure of the opposition Federalist party, did not want to use precious public money for land that was not immediately needed for any purpose. The Federalist Party was on its last legs in America despite the fact that George Washington was a Federalist. Americans at the time were looking forward—not back. The new territory was the locus of scientific studies of the day with the Lewis & Clark Expedition so the investment was in much more than land. Security was also a factor as it gave foreign governments less of a foothold on our continent.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
