The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no ...plan of house or state of their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary mona...rchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceivin...g him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kennedy benefited, too, from the fact that the country perceived him to be, like Roosevelt, a patrician. To be sure, Kennedy did n...ot boast a seventeenth-century lineage or descend from the landed gentry. Yet in other respects they were similar. Both had gone to prestigious prep schools; both were Harvard men; both had sailed the New England coast; each had a sense of noblesse oblige. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy was a man of inherited wealth who could, to a degree, view business from the outside. In comparing Kennedy to Roosevelt, a columnist for the New Republic observed: "Each had an upper-class education, found a life of public service more attractive than money-grabbing, and each had a respect for the decencies. At heart, too, each had a kind of patrician reticence, an impervious private dignity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that wou...ld make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Federated Republic of Europe--the United States of Europe--that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economi...c evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vien...na M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon ...the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No--we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »