Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.... And yet there is not a mor...e fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world of ...occasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vermont is a state I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington and Mansfield without being moved in a way that... no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day, here that I received my bride. Here my dead lie buried, pillowed among the everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, I love her because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost impoverished themselves for love of others. If ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous share held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money... to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stret...ches, I have been a disappointed woman.... I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being--every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is from quiet places like this all over the world that the forces accumulate which presently will overbear any attempt to accom...plish evil on a large scale. Like the rivulets gathering into the river, and the river into the seas, there come from communities like this streams that fertilize the consciences of men, and it is the conscience of the world that we are trying to place upon the throne which others would usurp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest of... a new freedom for America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »