America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have... lived in a cave and worn skins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I may be old-fashioned. I don't like this modern movement.... And yet, there are certain sorts of work a woman may well do; teachi...ng, being governess, or any taking care of children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I, his wife, rested and was warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love, and glorious fame, and now, even though his beautiful lif...e has gone out, it is as when some far off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of his great fame still falls upon and warms me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I ...have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We went on, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the soldier, binding up his wounds, harboring the stranger, ...visiting the sick, ministering to the prisoner, and burying the dead, until that blessed day at Appomattox Court House relieved the strain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics--a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power-...-the women's programs are just as doomed as the men's are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that's the kind of success for women's sports that we want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, thr...ough them, had come into final collision. Back of Robert E. Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life. Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition.... Grant, the son of a tanner on the Western frontier, was everything Lee was not. He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains. He was one of a body of men who owed reverence and obeisance to no one, who were self-reliant to a fault, who cared hardly anything for the past but who had a sharp eye for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »