It is the helpless cry of [the] lost women who are victims of centuries of wrong; it is the unspoken plea of thousands of women no...w standing on the brink of similar ruin; it is the silent appeal of the army of women in all lands who in shops and factories are demanding fair living and working conditions; it is the need to turn the energies of more favoured women to public service; it is the demand for a complete revision of women's legal, social, educational, and industrial status all along the line, which permits us no delay, no hesitation. The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. The pressing need spurs us on, the certainty of victory gives us daily inspiration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can.... But it is a wretched business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under... a dictatorship. The Marxist calls himself scientific and to this claim the Fascist adds another: he is the poet--the scientific poet--of a new mythology.... Each applies to human situations the procedures which have proved effective in the laboratory and the ivory tower. They simplify, they abstract, they eliminate all that, for their purposes, is irrelevant.... They compel the facts to verify a favorite hypothesis, they consign to the waste paper basket all that, to their mind, falls short of perfection. And because they thus act like good artists, sound thinkers and tried experimenters, the prisons are full, political heretics are worked to death as slaves, the rights and preferences of mere individuals are ignored, the Gandhis are murdered and from morning till night a million school-teachers and broadcasters proclaim the infallibility of the bosses who happen at the moment to be in power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new aut...hor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a great woman; a magnificent, generous, gallant, reckless, fated fool of a woman. There was never a place for her in the ...ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Norther...n Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through ...the always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaw...s them,--to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »