What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and wh...irlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, tr...aditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.... Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost--and will never lose--a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me--to fight ourselve...s for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, th...is is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hi...ve of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented th...e majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiratio...n of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the... body of Christ?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »