Don Marquis Quotes
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Marquis, Don. "The Sun Dial." The Evening Sun [New York].
The term “rugged individualism” was used at the time be very conservatives and the very wealthy to describe business leladers with words that had very good public connotations. They argued that it would be undesirable to curtail their individualism that was so important by any government regulations or laws that would limit what the business leaders could do. However, the reality was that these very successful and powerful “rugged individualists” had regimented most everyone else—employees, consumers, and small businessmen who might sell them services or products. To Tugwell, if the wealthy and powerful few had no restrictions on their individualism, there would be precious little individualism for most of society. He sought a balance of regulating the individualism and prerogatives of the few somewhat in order to allow the vast majority of people to be able to have individuality as well.
This was one of his great fundamental questions of mankind which his research began to answer.
The same greatest issue was still before the people a century later. See {633217} , {635104} & {630538}.
This important statement would not have been a noteworthy quote as so many have said it before, except for the fact that she was writing as a spokesperson of Nationalist China and she was the wife of the Nationalist Party leader, Chiang Kai-Shek. And the great failure of Chiang’s governance was the corruption and the excessive exploitation of the Chinese people by the wealthy. Madame Chaing, educated at Vassar College, knew just what to say to Americans and she mustered incredible support for the Nationalist cause most of which would never have been forthcoming if Americans knew the truth about the Nationalist Government. It was so corrupt, that the vast majority of the people aided the Communists in defeating Chaing, expelling him from the mainland, and relegating his government to Taiwan. Madame Chaing’s hypocrisy was legend. See {615696}.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent movie (1926) and a talkie (1937).
