B. Carroll Reece Quotes

United States, Politician
December 22, 1889 – March, 19, 1961.

Brazilla Carroll Reece was an American politician from Tennessee. He served in the United States House of Representatives for all but six years from 1921 to 1961.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

B. Carroll Reece
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

B. Carroll Reece
- Work
- Own
- Work Hard

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

B. Carroll Reece
- Live
- Grow
- Old-fashioned
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

B. Carroll Reece
- Today
- Energy
- Youth
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

B. Carroll Reece
- America
- Doubt
- Socialism
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

B. Carroll Reece
- Long
- Ideas
- Opinion