The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the f...irst the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind--men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh--who founded the English colonies in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids r...ead it and they don't hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that. So they have to lay off a lot of their employees. Union employees. Now you've got the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. against you, and they're going to adore you for it. And they're gonna say it with votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and ...the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that "we, the people," should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We enunciate a grand principle, then we are timid and begin restricting its application. We are a nation of infidels to principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. An...yway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy for us, that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assembl...e with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White... House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »