...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 »
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its... serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon ...the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No--we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I never drink wine ... I keep my hands soft and supple ... I sleep in a soft bed and never over-tire my body. It is because whe...n my hour strikes I must be a perfect instrument. My eyes must be steady, my brain clear, my nerves calm, my aim true. I must be prepared to do my work, successfully if God wills. But if I perish, I perish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constr...aining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man--weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear,... they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm b...y the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »