Vermont is a state I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Killington and Mansfield without being moved in a way that... no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day, here that I received my bride. Here my dead lie buried, pillowed among the everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, I love her because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost impoverished themselves for love of others. If ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous share held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage.... ...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Jua...ns, and rabid equality-mongrels. The old, hardy, indomitable male is gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pione...er, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageou...s race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirious ...of living more do we really live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influ...ence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »