If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, hig...h culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by powe...r enough to give authority to its decrees. ... Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from ...the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Citizens' Protective League of Denver, founded to "squelch the knocking and blackmailing newspapers in our beautiful but benig...hted city," demanded that no news story, editorial, or advertisement unfit for fifteen-year-olds to read should be published, ....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became the Incredible Shrinking Mother the year they started junior high. If our relationship today depended on physical clout, ...I would have about the same influence with them that the republic of Liechtenstein has on world politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best--it's all they'll take, leaving to others th...e problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money--provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the America...n people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long before your child sets foot in his dorm, you'll begin the transition to college-style parent. It's a transition fraught with ...misgivings and exuberance, with self-doubt and bursts of confidence, with joyful letting go and tearful hanging on. And in case you think these refer only to your child's feelings, they don't. These [emotions] besiege just about every parent along about second semester of junior year in high school. That's when the reality sets in that your child--not someone else's this time--will be going off to college.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the tog...as and talliths of the Good Book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »