My friends you want a speech, but I cannot make one at this time. I must have opportunity to think. Undue importance might be give...n to what I said. However, there is one thing I will do. You have a band with you. There's one piece of music I've always liked. Heretofore, it hasn't seemed the proper thing to use it in the North. But now by virtue of my prerogative as President and Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy, I declare it contraband of war and our lawful prize. I ask the band to play "Dixie."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that beca...use they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of goo...d, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful ...earth, for it is the mother of the red man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and ...the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with ...scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood wh...ich unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the l...and, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go thou and buy the books and writings of certain scribes and Pharisees which I shall name unto you, and thou shalt learn everythi...ng of good and of evil. Yea, thou shalt learn everything of good and of evil. Yea, thou shalt know as much as the Chief of the Niggerati, who is called Carl Van Vechten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »