They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, thr...ough them, had come into final collision. Back of Robert E. Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life. Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition.... Grant, the son of a tanner on the Western frontier, was everything Lee was not. He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains. He was one of a body of men who owed reverence and obeisance to no one, who were self-reliant to a fault, who cared hardly anything for the past but who had a sharp eye for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public igominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cad...illacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no wisdom that can take the place of humanity, and we find that in Chaucer. We can expand at last in his breadth, and we ...think that we could have been that man's acquaintance. He was worthy to be a citizen of England, while Petrarch and Boccaccio lived in Italy, and Tell and Tamerlane in Switzerland and in Asia, and Bruce in Scotland, and Wickliffe and Gower and Edward the Third and John of Gaunt and the Black Prince were his own countrymen as well as contemporaries; all stout and stirring names. The fame of Roger Bacon came down from the preceding century, and the name of Dante still possessed the influence of a living presence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin... I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors All of us against the foreigner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha, your father told me something once, a long time ago, when I first started to work with him: In the war of science, many pe...ople must die before any victory can be won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of tw...o beer glasses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah! Freedom is a noble thing! Freedom makes man to have liking:... Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is coupled to foul thraldom. But if he had assayed it,... Then all perquer he should it wit; And should think freedom more to prize Than all the gold in world that is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »