... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them ...so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank." ...This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you Yankees and your holy principle about savin' the Union. You're plunderin' pirates that's what. Well, you think there's n...o Confederate army where you're goin'. You think our boys are asleep down here. Well, they'll catch up to you and they'll cut you to pieces you, you nameless, fatherless scum. I wish I could be there to see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the el...ection and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade uni...on movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their... full share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the peop...le of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not--will not be forgotten nor neglected.... But those who fought against the Nat...ion cannot and do not look to it for relief.... Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains commerce. And we pay not because it is... just to discharge our debts, but that we might the more easily find lenders on another occasion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »