Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which come...s sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ev...er gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundr...ed millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherei...n these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate, so that being thrown into the balance it may prevent either scale from preponderating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of th...ose schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutio...ns for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!... Fie on't, ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and ...criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved hound, with a strange aba...ndonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour, and no morsel could have been too savage for me. The wildest scenes had become unaccountably familiar. I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »