"We are so new--still in the making, and absurdly raw.

When we have a war, it is just politics, with scandals about what the soldiers have to eat, and that sort of thing; and there's a fuss about pensions, and the heroic side of it is lost." "But it is easy to overestimate the weight of history and tradition.

The glory of dead Caesar doesn't do the peasant any good.

When you see Italian laborers at work in America digging ditches or laying railroad ties, or find Norwegian farmers driving their plows into the new hard soil of the Dakotas, you don't think of their past as much as of their future--the future of the whole human race." Armitage had been the subject of so much jesting between Dick and herself that it seemed strange to be talking to him.

His face brightened pleasantly when he spoke; his eyes were grayer than she had mockingly described them for her brother's benefit the day before.