Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a c...lose and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of--[from audience: "soap"Ma reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of ...men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility--the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Jim," she said earnestly, "if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and... along the river to the next town, where my grandmother lived. My feet remember all the little paths through the woods, and where the big roots stick out to trip you. I ain't never forgot my own country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down th...e baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the wo...rk for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer stands well on the world. Plain in manners as in dress, he would not shine in palaces; he is absolutely unknown and ina...dmissible therein; living or dying, he never shall be heard of in them; yet the drawing-room heroes put down beside him would shrivel in his presence; he solid and unexpressive, they expressed to gold-leaf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strikes have been put down by force; but now for the real remedy. Can't something [be] done by education of the strikers, by j...udicious control of the capitalists, by wise general policy to end or diminish the evil? The railroad strikers, as a rule, are good men, sober, intelligent, and industrious. The mischiefs are:-- 1. Strikers prevent men willing to work from doing so. 2. They seize and hold the property of their employers. 3. The consequent excitement furnishes an opportunity for the dangerous criminal classes to destroy life and property.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper--whether little or great..., it belongs to Literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated,... penniless boy, working on a flat boat--at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »