Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I... tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;Mthough I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another danger is imminent: A contested result. And we have no such means for its decision as ought to be provided by law. This mu...st be attended to hereafter.... If a contest comes now it may lead to a conflict of arms. I can only try to do my duty to my countrymen in that case. I shall let no personal ambition turn me from the path of duty. Bloodshed and civil war must be averted if possible. If forced to fight, I have no fears from lack of courage or firmness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chaucer had eminently the habits of a literary man and a scholar. There were never any times so stirring that there were not to be... found some sedentary still. He was surrounded by the din of arms. The battles of Hallidon Hill and Neville's Cross, and the still more memorable battles of Cressy and Poictiers, were fought in his youth; but these did not concern our poet much, Wickliffe and his reform much more. He regarded himself always as one privileged to sit and converse with books. He helped to establish the literary class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been proposed that the town should adopt for its coat of arms a field verdant, with the Concord circling nine times round.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Verily, the Indian has but a feeble hold on his bow now; but the curiosity of the white man is insatiable, and from the first he h...as been eager to witness this forest accomplishment. That elastic piece of wood with its feathered dart, so sure to be unstrung by contact with civilization, will serve for the type, the coat-of-arms of the savage. Alas for the Hunter Race! the white man has driven off their game, and substituted a cent in its place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause aris...es in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of a...rms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The use of arms is ownership Of the appropriate gun. It is ownership that brings... Victory that is not hinted at in "Das Kapital." I think there is never but one true war So let us as you desire perfect our trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »