High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do no...t help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means succes...sively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had to prosper good and punish evil. You changed all that. You set me free to reign.... You are the Emancipator of your God, And as such I promote you to a saint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Republicans] offer ... a detailed agenda for national renewal.... [On] reducing illegitimacy ... the state will use ... funds... for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to ministe...r to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... all the slaveholding laws violate the fundamental principles of the Constitution of the United States. In the preamble of that... instrument, the great objects for which it was framed are declared to be "to establish justice, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to us and to our posterity." The slave laws are flagrant violations of these fundamental principles. Slavery subverts justice, promotes the welfare of the few to the manifest injury of the many, and robs thousands of the posterity of their forefathers of the blessings of liberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The gre...ater the "genius" of the personage, the greater the profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Europe, a man of genius is almost privileged. If he be a poet or an artist, allowances are made for the extravagance of his fan...cy, or the peculiarity of his appetites. If he be a statesman, his individual wanderings are forgotten for the general good he bestows on the nation; if he be a soldier, the wounds he may inflict on virtue and unguarded innocence are pardoned for the sake of those he may have received in defending his country; and even the clergy have their offenses excused, in consideration of the morals which they promote by their spiritual functions. No such compensation takes place in the United States. Private virtue overtops the highest qualifications of the mind, and is indispensable to the progress even of the most acknowledged talents. This, in many instances, clips the wings of genius, by substituting a decent mediocrity in the place of brilliant but vicious talents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What the South most needs is "peace," and peace depends upon the supremacy of the law. There can be no enduring peace if the const...itutional rights of any portion of the people are habitually disregarded.... All parts of the Constitution are sacred and must be sacredly observed--the parts that are new no less than the parts that are old. The moral and national prosperity of the Southern States can be most effectively advanced by a hearty and generous recognition of the rights of all, by all--a recognition without reserve or exception. With such a recognition fully accorded it will be practicable to promote, by the influence of all the legitimate agencies of the General Government, the efforts of the people of those States to obtain for themselves the blessings of honest and capable local government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is often heard, "What is to become of the man ... who, having been Chief Magistrate of the Republic retires at the en...d of his official term to private life?" It seems to me the reply is near at hand and sufficient: Let him, like every other good American citizen, be willing and prompt to bear his part in every useful work that will promote the welfare and the happiness of his family, his town, his State, and his country. With this disposition he will have work enough to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »