idealists hope that when the underground comes, the elevated will go; but I, as an outsider, cannot share his hope.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
He went to New York on a business trip, and stayed a couple of months, and wrote her that he had met some Anarchists, and had discovered that all he had read about them in the newspapers was false, and that they were the true and pure idealists to whom the rest of his life must be devoted.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Say, think of it-if we were all honest like idealists talk of.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum