| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1452 |
| AUTHOR: | Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) |
| QUOTATION: | Beware of the man who rises to power
From one suspender. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | EDGAR LEE MASTERS, “John Hancock Otis,” Spoon River Anthology, p. 123 (1915, reprinted 1916).
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 |
| WORKS: | Edgar Lee Masters Collection | | |
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