Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave infor...mation on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just why I, out of 3,000,000 users of the Free Public Library in 1919 (2,573,591 of whom pencilled vitriolic comments in the margi...ns of the books), should have been elected to do this work is still a great mystery to my family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foster the labor of our country by an undeviating metallic currency ... always recollecting that if labor is depressed neither com...merce nor manufactures can flourish, as they are both based upon the production of labor, produced from the earth, or the mineral world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting al...l in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What disgraceful scenes in Congress. Is Mr. Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confi...ned to a hospital.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not building here a statue to erect at the town crossroads, or in a church or a public square.... This is for a nook in a lib...rary, and to amuse a neighbor, a relative, a friend, who may take pleasure in associating and conversing with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logicall...y the next step would be to say to our commonwealth's criminals, "I disagree that it's all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion." Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »