I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Unio...n, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, f...eel the urge to taste the same joy himself. He implores him, it is true, not to tell a soul; but if such a condition were taken absolutely literally, it would at once cut off the flow of these joys at their very source. The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal pri...vilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was t...he stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »