I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It may ...not be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to ...be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.... Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, f...or the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a perfect Tragedy is the noblest Production of human Nature, so it is capable of giving the Mind one of the most delightful and... most improving Entertainments. A virtuous Man (says Seneca) strugling [sic] with Misfortunes, is such a Spectacle as Gods might look upon with Pleasure: And such a Pleasure it is which one meets with in the Representation of a well-written Tragedy. Diversions of this kind wear out of our Thoughts every thing that is mean and little. They cherish and cultivate that Humanity which is the Ornament of our Nature. They soften Insolence, sooth [sic] Affliction, and subdue the Mind to the Dispensations of Providence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was th...e Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which we... owe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument ...at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation.... At bottom some belief in a kind of pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mi...ssion unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »