As the term of my relief from this place [Washington, D.C.] approaches, it's drudgery becomes more nauseating and intolerable, and... my impatience to be with you at Monticello increases daily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Divide and conquer--that's what they try to do to any group trying to make social change. I call it D&C. Black people are supposed... to turn against Puerto Ricans. Women are supposed to turn against their mothers and mothers-in-law. We're all supposed to compete with each other for the favors of the ruling class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look a here people, listen to me, Don't try to find no home in Washington, D.C.... Lord, it's a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this respect it differs from Europe, w...hich has preferred sophistication and worldly wisdom to "righteousness," and resembles China, which saw the universe itself as essentially a moral order. However materialistic Americans may be in their economic pursuits, their ceremonies emphasize the material far less than European societies have. America has imposing official architecture. Washington, D.C., boasts a radial baroque stateliness. Yet one of its most important buildings, the White House, is a modest dwelling, its scale far smaller than that of the palaces of Europe and Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We lov'd, and we lov'd, as long as we could, Till our love was lov'd out in us both;... But our marriage is dead, when the pleasure is fled: 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,... Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »