I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-d...ay as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a great woman; a magnificent, generous, gallant, reckless, fated fool of a woman. There was never a place for her in the ...ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder!... Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independe...nt of all sensuous information--never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good--he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I declare Billy. I like you so much personally I wish I could vote for you. But bein' a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, ...I just as leave cut my throat as to vote for a Democrat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses--that man your navy, a...nd recruit your army--that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »