I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-d...ay as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I declare Billy. I like you so much personally I wish I could vote for you. But bein' a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, ...I just as leave cut my throat as to vote for a Democrat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new aut...hor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was not only in Skeat that he found words for his treasure- house, he found them also at haphazard in the shops, on advertiseme...nts, in the mouths of the plodding public. He kept repeating them to himself till they lost all instantaneous meaning for him and became wonderful vocables.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a great woman; a magnificent, generous, gallant, reckless, fated fool of a woman. There was never a place for her in the ...ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and tha...t, in one word, is SACRIFICE!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just why I, out of 3,000,000 users of the Free Public Library in 1919 (2,573,591 of whom pencilled vitriolic comments in the margi...ns of the books), should have been elected to do this work is still a great mystery to my family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which ha...ve been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »