When the soul of man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality..., language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had... the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only prete...nding, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas, described by Horace Greeley in 1859 as "T...he Astor House of the Gold Fields," orchestra leader Jones and his spirited men were interrupted by sporadic but not unforeseen bursts of gunfire that sent them diving for shelter behind a low iron-plated enclosure. Before the smoke had fairly cleared away, they were up again desperately playing and singing: Ha, boys, ho! Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness, Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness? Ha, boys, ho!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer r...eason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,... Where ignorant armies clash by night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »