Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devot...ion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; whil...e the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further, and say that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man. In a slaveholding country like this, there can be no such thing as a liberal education tolerated by the State; and those scholars of Austria and France who, however learned they may be, are contented under their tyrannies have received only a servile education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves to... be fleeced, the good lords.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had not come to America, where I felt free to formulate tentatively insights at which I had empathically arrived, I would hav...e accomplished very little. I would never have begun to publish, to teach, to undertake research. Because if one does not find an assenting echo to one's ideas, if one is passed over, as I was in Vienna, then one cannot create. To create, after all, is to believe that what one says will count.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,... Wedded to him, not through union, But through separationLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if there are no waving flags and marching songs at the barricades as Walter marches out with his little battalion, it is not b...ecause the battle lacks nobility. On the contrary, he has picked up in his way, still imperfect and wobbly in his small view of human destiny.... He becomes, in spite of those who are too intrigued with despair and hatred of man to see it, King Oedipus refusing to tear out his eyes, but attacking the oracle instead. He is that last Jewish patriot manning his rifle at Warsaw.... He is Anne Frank, still believing in people; he is the nine small heroes of Little Rock; he is Michelangelo creating David and Beethoven bursting forth with the Ninth Symphony. He is all these things because he has finally reached out in his tiny moment and caught that sweet essence which is human dignity, and it shines like the old star-touched dream that is in his eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bert McAnny: Now for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends ... Anne: I know, dear. And some ...of your other best friends are Methodists, but you never bother to say it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »