Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 1452 |
AUTHOR: | Edgar Lee Masters (18691950) |
QUOTATION: | Beware of the man who rises to power From one suspender. |
ATTRIBUTION: | In this poem, the rich John Hancock Otis describes a man born in a shanty and beginning life as a water carrier then section hand afterwards foreman who rose to the superintendency of the railroad as a veritable slave driver, grinding the faces of labor, and a bitter enemy of democracy. |
SUBJECTS: | Power |