It might easily be made a physical impossibility for criminals, hereditary paupers, imbeciles, profligates, and others suffering f...rom gross bodily or mental defects, to propagate their failings and their vices. In no long time our prisons, workhouses, and asylums would be empty.... Prostitution would become a forgotten calling. Pauperism would cease. Disease would be almost unknown. By the same methods which breeders adopt, our race could be raised to the highest pitch of perfection and of excellence. The people who shall first have the moral courage to do this, will take the lead among the nations of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary mona...rchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which ...would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people.... Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hatin...g hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My intention is not to provoke but to appease; not to assail but to defend; not to conquer but to protect my loyal subjects and he...reditary properties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' the sun And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed... Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed That any did. Had we pursued that life, And our weak spirits ne'er been higher reared With stronger blood, we should have answered heaven Boldly "Not guilty," the imposition cleared Hereditary ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »