The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromw...ell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman i...s her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The rest...oration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I now have next to no hope of a restoration of the old Union.... If it is the settled and final judgment of any slave State that s...he cannot live in the Union, I should not think it wise or desirable to retain her by force, even if it could be done. But am I, therefore, to oppose the war? If it were a war of conquest merely, certainly I should oppose it.... But the war is forced on us. We cannot escape it. While ... perhaps in all the cotton-growing States, a deciding and controlling public judgment has deliberately declared against remaining in the Union, it is quite certain that in several States rebellious citizens are bent on forcing out of the Union States whose people are not in favor of secession.... If force had been employed to meet force, I believe several States now out of the Union would have remained in it.... The war ... for the defence of the capital, for the maintenance of the authority of the Government and the rights of the United States, I think is necessary, wise, and just.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand fr...om my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despite ...the fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love.... It is in the interest of living art and li...ving history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »