... it must be obvious that in the agitation preceding the enactment of [protective] laws the zeal of the reformers would be secon...d to the zeal of the highly paid night-workers who are anxious to hold their trade against an invasion of skilled women. To this sort of interference with her working life the modern woman can have but one attitude: I am not a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostra...cism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be appre...hended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The in...vasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both Napoleon and Hitler controlled continental Europe. Neither could defeat Britain so long as she retained her mastery at sea, a...nd for that reason both abandoned their projected invasion of the British Isles. But Britain could not hope to overcome her enemy without the help of major land-powers on the Continent. Spain in the 1800s was the equivalent to North Africa in the early 1940s, sideshows where alone the enemies grappled on land. Both dictators turned to a strategy of economic stranglehold of Britain, in the 1800s by attempting to close all European ports to British, in the 1940s by unlimited submarine warfare. In both wars the dictators invaded Russia to render her powerless so that they could turn all their strength against Britain, and both campaigns had the opposite result, that Russia became a victorious ally who enabled Britain to survive. The analogy breaks only in the attitude of the United States, in the first war a temporary enemy, in the second an incomparable ally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transm...itted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my practice I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happens slowly instead of all at once. I di...dn't seem to mind.... All of us, a little bit. We harden our hearts. Grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »