I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don'...t you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him... all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To ...preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which... remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as "right" in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as "brute force."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I ...read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can't see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote--eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The steel decks rock with the lightning shock, and shake with the great recoil,... And the sea grows red with the blood of the dead and reaches for his spoil-- But not till the foe has gone below or turns his prow and runs, Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release to the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But off with your hat and three times three for Columbia's true-blue sons,... The men below who batter the foe--the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then down, deep down, in the mighty ship, unseen by the midday suns,... You'll find the chaps who are giving the raps--the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »