There are but three generations in America from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.

Andrew Carnegie

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Topic

Social mobility

Author

Andrew Carnegie

Source

Triumphant Democracy

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Industrialist Businessperson

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Carnegie, Andrew. Triumphant Democracy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886, ch. 16.

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The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

Walt Whitman

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Topic
Economic equality National greatness
Speaker
Walt Whitman
Language
English
Time
1888 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 2, Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Originally stated in a conversation with Walt Whitman, 3 Aug. 1888.