There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows thi...ngs to take a new and natural order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[P]ermanent defenses are a non-recurring charge against governmental budgets while large armies continually rearmed with improved ...offensive weapons constitute a recurring charge. This, more than any other factor ... is responsible for governmental deficits and threatened bankruptcy. The way to disarm is to disarm.... [Congress and the President strive] for the improvement of social conditions, for the preservation of individual human rights, and for the furtherance of social justice.... It is in order to assure these great human values that we seek peace by ridding the world of the weapons of aggression and attack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As survivals from an archaic order, serfdom and slavery had common conflicts with a modern world of nineteenth century capitalism ...and simultaneously faced crises that ended with abolition of the two systems. But they faced their mid-century crises in very different ways.... Southern slaveholders developed a far more cohesive world and much more power over it than did the noblemen in their world. By mid-century slavery was flourishing as never before, and serfdom was staggering toward bankruptcy. The aggressive vitality of the planter aristocrats in defense of their society and their spirited commitment to slavery as a way of life contrasted sharply with the submissiveness and withering support of serfdom on the part of the Russian nobility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep ...the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail.... Fluenc...y, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we ca...n hope for is to put some order into ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, San Francisco has experienced a double tragedy of incredible proportions. As acting mayor, I order an immediate state of mo...urning in our city. The city and county of San Francisco must and will pull itself together at this time. We will carry on as best as we possibly can.... I think we all have to share the same sense of shame and the same sense of outrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to... associate with me who does not wish me near them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he sha...ll not be dismissed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »