The Cholera Years Quotes

“Give food to the hungry, clothe the naked, remove the filth from the habitations of the poor, and the cholera will quickly disappear.”7”
― Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

“The skilled in lore and mystery
From time to time await,
Nor slip one opportunity,
To marry Church and State!
Hope gives them dreams of wealth and ease,
And Beelzebub sends pride,
And whilst they sleep, the sheaves leap up,
And on the tithe cart ride!
Reflect—ye who drink deep at doubt’s
Broad fountain—full and free;
Can priests avert the shafts of fate,
or change our destiny?28”
― Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

“The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.”
― Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866