You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate. There is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of... the French council.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. They did not know it ...was a deed of fame they were doing. These men did not babble of glory. They never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most. They supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their governors. And as they had no fear of man, they yet did have a fear of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nature of Man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formatio...n of the State. The necessity of the colonists wrote the law. Their wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities, and to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted; it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through them to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for th...ey know not what they should do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Deacon King was tried for violating the Sabbath, and so hot was the debate that it was referred to the church council, which ultim...ately decided, after long and grave debate, that the deacon had committed a 'work of necessity and mercy.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have got through with the South Carolina and Louisiana [problems]. At any rate, the troops are ordered away, and I now hope for... peace, and what is equally important, security and prosperity for the colored people. The result of my plans is to get from those States by their governors, legislatures, press, and people pledges that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments shall be faithfully observed; that the colored people shall have equal rights to labor, education, and the privileges of citizenship. I am confident this is good work. Time will tell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and th...eir present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under t...he superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »