So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.