You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosoph...y. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration... of Independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This I do know and can say to you: Our country is in more danger now than at any time since the Declaration of Independence. We do...n't dare follow the Lindberghs, Wheelers and Nyes, casting suspicion, sowing discord around the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We don't want revolution among ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature--opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice.... Repeal the Missouri comp...romise--repeal all compromises--repeal the declaration of independence--repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hi...ve of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever takes a view of the life of man ... will find it so beset and hemm'd in with obligations of one kind or other, as to leave... little room to suspect, that man can live to himself: and so closely has our creator link'd us together ... that we find this bond of mutual dependence ... is too strong to be broke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electr...icity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... as women become free, economic, social factors, so becomes possible the full social combination of individuals in collective i...ndustry. With such freedom, such independence, such wider union, becomes possible also a union between man and woman such as the world has long dreamed of in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that ...I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »