With our splendid harbour, our beautifully situated city, our vast territories, all our varied and inexhaustible natural wealth, i...f we don't convert our colony into a great and prosperous nation, it will be a miracle of error for which we shall have to answer as for a gigantic sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Tall tales" were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing... a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd never set foot in San Francisco. Of all the Sodoms and Gomorrahs in our modern world, it is the worst. There are not 10 righte...ous (and courageous) men there. It needs another quake, another whiff of fire--and--more than all else--a steady trade wind of grapeshot.... That moral penal colony of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of indepen...dence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mothercountry. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with... mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. When the Dutch, or the French, or the Engli...sh royalist disagreed with the Colony, there was always found a Dutch or French, or tory party,--an earnest minority,--to keep things from extremity. But the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den. It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience... of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »