The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be d...ictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly hap...pens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very li...ttle affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Sneed and her daughter, Miss Austine Sneed, are visiting us--Washington correspondents of excellent character.... We are much... interested in their accounts of Washington affairs. Nothing could be further from our desire than to return to Washington and again enter its whirl, either socially or politically, but we are interested in seeing Washington with the roof off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custer's dead and around the bloody guidon of the immortal Seventh Cavalry lie 212 officers of the main. Sioux and Cheyenne are on... the war path. By military telegraph news of the Custer massacre is flashed across the long, long miles to the southwest. By stagecoach to the hundred settlements and the thousand farms standing under threat of Indian uprising. Pony Express riders know that one more such defeat as Custer's and it would be 100 years before another wagon train dared to cross the plain. And from the Canadian border to the Rio Bravo 10,000 Indians--Comanche, Arapaho, Sioux, and Apache under Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse, Gaul, and Crow King--are uniting in a common war against the United States cavalry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared... leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a space in the lives of their friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the savage state every family owns a shelter as good as the best, and sufficient for its coarser and simpler wants; but I think... that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the savages their wigwams, in modern civilized society not more than one half the families own a shelter. In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment ... which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannie...s the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »