If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Isra...el, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celeb...rated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever moreLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monday's child is fair in face, Tuesday's child is full of grace,... Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living; And a child that is born on a Christmas day, Is fair and wise, good and gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their associat...ion she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And whether it is Thursday, or the day is stormy, With thunder and rain, or the birds attack each other,... We have rolled into another dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
every day they die Among us, those who were doing us some good,... And knew it was never enough but Hoped to improve a little by living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to ...the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »