Samuel McChord Crothers

"Creative spirits always anticipate the course of events. They do not wait for the dawn of a new era. They resolutely begin the new era at the moment when they see that the old era is ended. The darkness gathers, but it is a time, not for vain repining over that which has passed away, but for eager planning for that which must take its place. There is a quick transfer of interests to new problems which relate themselves to the new period."

"History is an endless maze of unrelated happenings, until we divide it up into brief portions in which we discern a certain unity of purpose."

"We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory."

"To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike."

"There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions."

"In the meantime, the real America had awakened, but in its own way. It had awakened, not as a neurasthenic awakes to a vague and benumbing sense of helplessness in the presence of disaster, but as a strong man awakes to the magnitude of his necessary work."