The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed f...or it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When thou, poor Excommunicate From all the joys of love, shalt see... The full reward and glorious fate Which my strong faith shall purchase me, Then curse thine own inconstancy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts... and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We cannot escape the impression that the Muse has stooped a little in her flight, when we come to the literature of civilized eras....... The bard has in a great measure lost the dignity and sacredness of his office. Formerly he was called a seer, but now it is thought that one man sees as much as another. He has no longer the bardic rage, and only conceives the deed, which he formerly stood ready to perform. Hosts of warriors earnest for battle could not mistake nor dispense with the ancient bard. His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight. There was no danger of his being overlooked by his contemporaries. But now the hero and the bard are of different professions. When we come to the pleasant English verse, the storms have all cleared away, and it will never thunder and lighten more. The poet has come within doors, and exchanged the forest and crag for the fireside, the hut of the Gael, and Stonehenge, with its circles of stones, for the house of the Englishman. No hero stands at the door prepared to break forth into song or heroic action, but a homely Englishman, who cultivates the art of poetry. We see the comfortable fireside, and hear the crackling fagots, all in verse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O God, that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times... Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses ye...t lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account... of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Suffragists, hear this last call to a suffrage convention! The officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association hereby call their State auxiliaries, through their elected delegates, to meet in annual convention at Chicago, Congress Hotel, February 12th to 18th, inclusive. In other days our members and friends have been summoned to annual conventions to disseminate the propaganda for their common cause, to cheer and encourage each other, to strengthen their organized influence, to counsel as to ways and means of insuring further progress. At this time they are called to rejoice that the struggle is over, the aim achieved and the women of the nation about to enter into the enjoyment of their hard-earned political liberty. Of all the conventions held within the past fifty-one years, this will prove the most momentous. Few people live to see the actual and final realization of hopes to which they have devoted their lives. That privilege is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see you boys of summer in your ruin. Man in his maggot's barren.... And boys are full and foreign in the pouch. I am the man your father was. We are the sons of flint and pitch. O see the poles are kissing as they cross.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the c...onditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »