However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from d...istinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive t...erm democracy, and all those partial, person-respecting, class-favoring elements which we group together under that silver-slippered word aristocracy. If this war does not mean that, it means nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand a...nd dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduc...tion: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very li...ttle affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Mem...phis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that ...is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then we have difficulties between soldiers, very slight and easily disposed of; but troubles between soldiers and the carpenters w...hose tools disappear mysteriously, and farmers in the neighborhood who go to bed with roosts of barnyard fowl and wake up chickenless and fowlless, are more troublesome.... Our men are fully equal to the famous Massachusetts men in a mechanical way. They build quarters, ditches, roads, traps; dig wells, catch fish, kill squirrels, etc., etc., and it is really a new sensation, the affection and pride one feels respecting such a body of men in the aggregate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If she [a mother] is confident that feeling something is not the same as acting it out, she will be able to teach this to her chil...d. His feeling will seem less terrifying if she is sure she can control her own. It will be clear to her that respecting his feelings is not the same as giving in to his wishes or accepting his behavior; containing his behavior does not have to be the same as squelching his feelings. Since for most of us, these distinctions were never made clear in our own childhood, we need as much help as our children do in learning to distinguish between behavior and feelings, in keeping our feelings while exercising control over our actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »