... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assi...milate but one idea at a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When society comes to value one child more truly, we shall have, for every community, a country homestead where that child can go,... who needs special encouragement. It will not be a penal place, nor even a place of reform, but it will be held out, rather, as a dear delight and a reward. But when society values the child enough, and realises what the child means to the State, and what the home means to the child, it will provide even better, for then the child will have, in its own home, all that a home should give.... There will be safety. There will be the chance to be well, to be pure; room to grow and breathe in; the sacred privacy of the home circle--all those things that are the birthright of every child. And there will be, in some way, beauty, to which the soul of the child naturally turns, as does a plant to the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now for civil service reform. Legislation must be prepared and executive rules and maxims. We must limit and narrow the area of pa...tronage. We must diminish the evils of office-seeking. We must stop interference of federal officers with elections. We must be relieved of congressional dictation as to appointments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And let Reform her columns roll. With thunder peal, and lightening flash.... We'll preach deliverance to the soul. 'Mid proud Oppression's waning crash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to preve...nt the lower from getting more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a ...vital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now who could take you off to tiny life In one room or in two rooms or in three... And cork you smartly, like the flask of wine You are? Not any woman. Not a wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All ye poets of the age, All ye witlings of the stage,... Learn your jingles to reform, Crop your numbers to conform. Let your little verses flow Gently, sweetly, row by row; Let the verse the subject fit, Little subject, little wit. Namby-Pamby is your guide, Albion's joy, Hibernia's pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »