Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Well?" Tom queried, not catching her implication.

"Think," she said, "think of all the men and women who died in
those two thousand years, and socialism has not come yet. And in
two thousand years more it may be as far away as ever. Tom, your
socialism never did you any good. It is a dream."

"It wouldn't be if--" he began with a flash of resentment.