The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which. . . . pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing. . . . A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.