The intent of matrimony, is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civ...il society, to govern their family with prudence, and educate their children with discretion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as inde...pendent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I frankly admit that to be a "mistress" is less dishonorable than to be a "wife"; for while the mistress may leave her degradation... if she will, public sentiment and the law hold the "wife" in hers; and while the man is obliged to render compensation (poor I admit for the sacrifice) to his "mistress," he may demand of his "wife" that she perform his drudgery, submit to his blows, and (worse) live the uncomplaining victim of his rapacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men an...d women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed b...y us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority i...n exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do wi...thout the help and support of the woman I love.... I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations to the work of the world, ought to... do it himself, and not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket, or his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »