Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a c...lose and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of--[from audience: "soap"Ma reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We ...are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage... in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven for... having given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by whi...ch vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears lab...ored without wages. They made cotton "king." And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.... Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sente...nces. That's what their substance is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigot...ries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »