If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of u...niting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an "irrepressible conflict" between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The clause which lived twenty-four hours in the Alabama Constitution, granting to taxpaying women owning $500 worth of property th...e suffrage on questions of bonded indebtedness, was killed by a disease peculiar to the genus homo known as chivalry. In the case in point, the diagnosis revealed that the fairest, purest and brightest jewels that ever shone under the brilliant rays of God's shining sun would be immeasurably lowered by voting upon questions relating to the taxation of their own property. Yet, under the vagaries of this disease, this same convention conferred on husbands the right to vote on their wives' property. This is the same character of chivalry which gives the wages of the brightest, fairest jewels to the husband, which makes impossible equal pay for equal work and which classes the jewels with the idiots, insane and criminals in that and other States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, has ...some indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When time is old and hath forgot itself,... When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallowed cities up, And mighty states characterless are grated To dusty nothing, yet let memory From false to false among false maids in love Upbraid my falsehood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As both capitalist and communist states--not to mention the technological world--have evolved under the illusion that men purposef...ully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our most destructive illusions, fostering the belief that if we're only justified (and who isn't?)Mif we only calculate things correctly, if we only do the right thing (and who doesn't?)Mthen the future must yield the desired results. There must always be a way. And so hubris turns to false certainties, everyone expects to be a winner, and each morning is a mind-blowing surprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherei...n these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate, so that being thrown into the balance it may prevent either scale from preponderating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates Change horses, making history change its tune,... Then spur away o'er empires and o'er states, Leaving at last not much besides chronology, Excepting the post-obits of theology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account... of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Suffragists, hear this last call to a suffrage convention! The officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association hereby call their State auxiliaries, through their elected delegates, to meet in annual convention at Chicago, Congress Hotel, February 12th to 18th, inclusive. In other days our members and friends have been summoned to annual conventions to disseminate the propaganda for their common cause, to cheer and encourage each other, to strengthen their organized influence, to counsel as to ways and means of insuring further progress. At this time they are called to rejoice that the struggle is over, the aim achieved and the women of the nation about to enter into the enjoyment of their hard-earned political liberty. Of all the conventions held within the past fifty-one years, this will prove the most momentous. Few people live to see the actual and final realization of hopes to which they have devoted their lives. That privilege is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for... example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »