The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celeb...rated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever moreLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, th...e gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper ...intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children are as destined biologically to break away as we are, emotionally, to hold on and protect. But thinking independently com...es of acting independently. It begins with a two-year-old doggedly pulling on flannel pajamas during a July heat wave and with parents accepting that the impulse is a good one. When we let go of these small tasks without anger or sorrow but with pleasure and pride we give each act of independence our blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place,... Within her bosom is September, But in her heart a cold December.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New England likes to think it has a civilization based on character. The South likes to think it has a character based on civiliza...tion. A big difference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such a set of tittle tattle, prittle prattle visitants! Oh Dear! I am so sick of the ceremony and fuss of these fall lall people! ...So much dressing--chitchat--complimentary nonsense--In short, a country town is my detestation. All the conversation is scandal, all the attention, dress, and almost all the heart, folly, envy, and censoriousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I kee...p mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a... bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »