When in the enfranchisement of the black men [women] saw another ignorant class of voters placed about their heads, and beheld the... danger of a distinctively "male" government, forever involving the nations of the earth in war and violence; and demanded for the protection of themselves and children, that woman's voice should be heard and her opinions in public affairs be expressed by the ballot, they were coolly told that the black man had earned the right to vote, that he had fought and bled and died for his country. It was not because the three-penny tax on tea was so exorbitant that our Revolutionary fathers fought and died, but to establish the principle that such taxation was unjust. It is the same with this woman's revolution; though every law were as just to woman as to man, the principle that one class may usurp the power to legislate for another is unjust, and all who are now in the struggle from love of principle would still work on until the establishment of the grand and immutable truth, "All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Long...fellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages.... Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" were better poetry, but I didn't like them so well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go, throng each other's drawing-rooms, Ye idols of a petty clique:... Strut your brief hour in borrowed plumes, And make your penny-trumpets squeak: Deck your dull talk with pilfered shreds Of learning from a noble time, And oil each other's little heads With mutual Flattery's golden slime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morgan: From tonight you shall get a penny for every mark on your face, sixpence for a bloody nose, a shilling for a black eye, an...d two shillings for a broken nose. Mrs. Morgan: Gwilym, stop it. (To Huw) Fight again and when you come home not another look will you get from me. Not another word. Break your nose, then. Break your mother's heart every time you go from the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we often ask ourselves here despairingly: "What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can't people live peacefully together? Wh...y all this destruction?" The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?... Oh, why are people so crazy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greas...y cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandpa: Penny, why don't you write a play about ism-mania? Penny: Ism-mania?... Grandpa: Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody's got an ism these days. Penny: It sounds like an itch or something. Grandpa: It's just as catching. When things go a little bad these days, you go out and get yourself an ism and you're in business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »