PoemI, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.Langston HughesI, Too · 1926★ 7.0
Political literatureThe average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.H.L. MenckenNotes on Democracy · 1926★ 6.1
InterviewWhen wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.Nikola Tesla1926★ 6.0
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.T.E. LawrenceThe Seven Pillars of Wisdom · 1926★ 5.1
Speech · Political speechIf all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.Calvin Coolidge1926★ 5.1
NovelNobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises · 1926★ 4.7
NovelThe most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that our most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are more often than not, unconsidered.Andre GideThe Counterfeiters · 1926★ 4.4
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.Suzanne LaFolletteThe Beginnings of Emancipation · 1926★ 4.4
Short storyLet me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.F. Scott Fitzgerald1926★ 3.8
PoemI am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.Langston Hughes1926★ 3.7
Essay · Religious literatureNeither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either.G.K. Chesterton1926★ 3.5
Essay · Economic literatureMarxian socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion—how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men and, through them, the events of history.John Maynard KeynesThe End of Laissez-faire · 1926★ 3.5
PoemMeek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.Vera Brittain1926★ 3.5
NovelThere are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul.D.H. LawrenceThe Plumed Serpent · 1926★ 3.5
The English speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; (5) those who know and distinguish. Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority and are a happy folk, to be envied by the most of the minority classes.H.W. Fowler1926★ 3.4
LectureI ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.Arthur Eddington1926★ 3.4
Essay · Economic literatureI believe that in many cases the ideal size for the unit of control and organisation lies somewhere between the individual and the modern State. I suggest, therefore, that progress lies in the growth and the recognition of semi-autonomous bodies within the State.John Maynard KeynesThe End of Laissez-faire · 1926★ 2.7
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