We are taught for a comfort in this life that in the future there will certainly be more equity in distributing justice; that full...y one-half of the judges shall be of either sex, so that all law and custom shall not be made in the interests of part of the race and executed for one party's whims, to the detriment of the other party's rights. In the future life no such condition shall prevail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he i...s one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state.... It's bec...ome a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source; for that reason one must often not do so...mething to the detriment of error since one would do also something detrimental to truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely politi...cal sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic--the res- publica--has been settled, it is time to look after the res- privata,--the private state,--to see, as the Roman Senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done, ...and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »