Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches eve...rything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a f...air field, and live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the r...eal truth about his or her love affairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, ma...naged by women, filled with the work of women. Thousands discovered women were not only doing something, but had been working seriously for many generations ... [ellipsis in source] Many of the exhibits were admirable, but if others failed to satisfy experts, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to what we call the masses, and common men;Mthere are no common men. All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possib...le, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not merely for today, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free gov...ernment, which we have enjoyed all our lives.... I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence; that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,... Thy youth's proud livery, so gaz'd on now, Will be a tatter'd weed of small worth held. Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use If thou couldst answer, \'This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »