Three years ago, also, just a week after the authorities of Boston assembled to carry back a perfectly innocent man, and one whom ...they knew to be innocent, into slavery, the inhabitants of Concord caused the bells to be rung and the cannons to be fired, to celebrate their liberty,--and the courage and love of liberty of their ancestors who fought at the bridge. As if those three millions had fought for the right to be free themselves, but to hold in slavery three million others. Nowadays, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty-cap. I do not know but there are some who, if they were tied to a whipping-post, and could but get one hand free, would use it to ring the bells and fire the cannons to celebrate their liberty. So some of my townsmen took the liberty to ring and fire. That was the extent of their freedom; and when the sound of the bells died away, their liberty died away also; when the powder was all expended, their liberty went off with the smoke. The joke could be no broader if the inmates of the prisons were used to subscribe for all the powder to be used in such salutes, and hire the jailers to do the firing and ringing for them, while they enjoyed it through the grating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose?... Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get ...one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, div...est oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc. before one is sufficiently naked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault we...apons off our streets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...a lot of my people are models. I like that for them. I admire models, so I think that's right for my people. ...I love it when ...I have an important [client]. And the pictures and awards. One of my clients has these television awards--a beautiful statue of a woman. I think it's an Emmy. People would be lucky to get one. She has two. I think that's great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »