If you think it will only add one sprig to the wreath the country twines to bind the brows of my hero, I will run the risk of bein...g sneered at by those who criticize female productions of all kinds. ...Though a female, I was born a patriot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense o...f advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you feed a thousand people you are a nice man with suspicious motives. If you kill a thousand you are a hero. Continue to get t...hem killed by the thousands and you are a great conqueror than which nothing on earth is greater. Oppress them and you are a great ruler. Rob them by law and they are proud and happy if you let them glimpse you occasionally surrounded by the riches that you have trampled out of their hides. You are truly divine if you meet their weakness with the sword to slay and the dogs to tear. The only time you run great risk is when you serve them. The most repulsive thing to all men is gratitude. Men give up property, freedom and even life before they will have the obligation laid on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I show my grandchildren, I have a wonderful feeling of pride. I say, "See that crane way, way up there? Grandma used to run a... crane like that during the war."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay even ...in a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One has to have run a household before one can know the price of rice and firewood, and one has to have raised children before one... can understand a parent's love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional developme...nt has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much mo...re intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I asked myself, "Is it going to prevent me from getting out of here? Is there a risk of death attached to it? Is it permanently di...sabling? Is it permanently disfiguring? Lastly, is it excruciating?" If it doesn't fit one of those five categories, then it isn't important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »