Another serious reverse. [Gen. Ambrose] Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg.... Now remains our last card, the emancipation of th...e slaves. That may do it.... Our partisanship about generals is now rebuked. General [George B.] McClellan has serious faults or defects, but his friends can truly claim that if he had retained command, this disaster would not have occurred. The people and press would perhaps do well to cultivate patience. It is a virtue so needed in a struggle so equal as this. If the people can hold out, we shall find the right man after [a] while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness or feeling than now, nor with a fuller pu...rpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgement, I consistently can. But you must act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of you...r army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be s...educed from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austria...n one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brin...gs out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »