The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights--the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, ...the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If our vaunted "rule of the people" does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done--it must and will inevitably giv...e place to something better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million orators, for their passion for talk was... immediately responsible for all the other horrors ...Oratory prevented Russia from becoming a constitutional country. Oratory tore the Revolution from the patriots and gave it into the bloody hands of the mob. Oratory murdered the Czar, his wife, and their innocent children. Oratory almost wiped out the educated classes. Oratory held the stupid populace spellbound while the Germans invaded the country, boosted Lenine [sic] into power, and paved the way for the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. I never want to hear any more oratory as long as I live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops... or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is the ...natural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before ...a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a check... against irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Temperament refers to the mode of reaction and is constitutional and not changeable; character is essentially formed by a person's... experiences, especially of those in early life, and changeable, to some extent, by insights and new kinds of experiences. If a person has a choleric temperament, for instance, his mode of reaction is "quick and strong." But what he is quick or strong about depends on his kind of relatedness, his character. If he is a productive, just, loving person he will react quickly and strongly when he loves, when he is enraged by injustice, and when he is impressed by a new idea. If he is a destructive or sadistic character, he will be quick and strong in his destructiveness or in his cruelty. The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »