Search results for Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)

Nothing will come of nothing.

William Shakespeare

National honor is national property of the highest value.

James Monroe

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Jane Austen

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Robert E. Lee

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Rutherford B. Hayes

A public office is a public trust.

Attributed to Roman law and American statesmen

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Popular culture

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!".

Warren G. Harding