We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no acco...unt of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for them saying theres no God I wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont they go and create someth...ing I often asked him atheists or whatever they call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first when they go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they dont know neither do I so there you are they might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head.....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral h...as a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war; I say that again and again. I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was evident that, both on account of the feudal system and the aristocratic government, a private man was not worth so much in ...Canada as in the United States; and, if your wealth in any measure consists in manliness, in originality and independence, you had better stay here. How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment? A New-Englander would naturally be a bad citizen, probably a rebel, there,--certainly if he were already a rebel at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charit...y of friends, or a government pension,--provided you continue to breathe,--by whatever fine synonyms you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse. On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his income. In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only he who has had the good fortune to read them in the nick of time, in the most perceptive and recipient season of life, can gi...ve any adequate account of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite wom...anly.... Men don't like it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter; for by your words you will ...be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it--just as the world reproduces itself i...n the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »