Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up ...and fervently pledge the same thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come un...der the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendenci...es and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am heartily tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil. I wish it was at an end.... We are both physically very hea...lthy.... Our tempers are cheerful. We are social and popular. But it is one of our greatest comforts that the pledge not to take a second term relieves us from considering it. That was a lucky thing. It is a reform--or rather a precedent for a reform, which will be valuable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the local... and state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering ... I will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations ... all of which have in direct object th...e establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best effort...s to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »