Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarke...d.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the... classroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, th...ey do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with... their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and ...trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A nose, kind sir! Sure, Mother Nature, With all her freaks, ne'er formed this feature.... If such were mine, I'd try and trade it, And swear the gods had never made it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. Th...ey no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labour, and we will give you work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered--which was done there--he looking as cheerfu...l as any man could do in that condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was surprised to hear him say that he liked to go to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, etc., etc.; that he would like to live ther...e. But then, as if relenting a little, when he thought what a poor figure he would make there, he added, "I suppose, I live in New York, I be poorest hunter, I expect." He understood very well both his superiority and his inferiority to the whites. He criticized the people of the United States as compared with other nations, but the only distinct idea with which he labored was, that they were "very strong," but, like some individuals, "too fast." He must have the credit of saying this just before the general breakdown of railroads and banks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »