Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust the...mselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the corruption of the best things produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, b...y the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,... on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll wager that it was impossible after we got mixed together to tell an anti from a suffragist by her clothes. There might have b...een a difference, though, in the expression of the faces and the shape of the heads.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These st...orms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams ... then you must still regard America today with the same naive ent...husiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen...ces of national character, education, and even temperament. For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World; while Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow--despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »