| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 159 |
| AUTHOR: | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
| QUOTATION: | You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, chapter 55, p. 263 (1928).
In the “Foreword for American Readers” Shaw says, “Finally, I have been asked whether there are any intelligent women in America. There must be; for politically the men there are such futile gossips that the United States could not possibly carry on unless there were some sort of practical intelligence back of them. But I will let you into a secret which bears on this point. By this book I shall get at the American men through the American women” (p. xi). |
| SUBJECTS: | Capitalism |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | George Bernard Shaw Collection | | |
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