There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yeste...rday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement--improvement in condition--is the order of things in a society of equals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar in ...habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are... the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the "easy life of the gods" would be a lifeless life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diver...ting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive cou...nsels and comforts, we get under no other condition ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio...n great, forgiveness easy. The loss of home in Protestant living is more difficult, yet not shattering, for each man is still a part of the entire community who are bound by an impersonal ethic of love. But in Jewish life, each home is an island unto itself, and the severing of the ties of family and tradition causes a tremor which can never be settled. The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on... condition that he leave the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence ...that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister a...t the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »