As to Mr. Lincoln's name and fame and memory,--all is safe. His firmness, moderation, goodness of heart; his quaint humor, his per...fect honesty and directness of purpose; his logic his modesty his sound judgment, and great wisdom; the contrast between his obscure beginnings and the greatness of his subsequent position and achievements; his tragic death, giving him almost the crown of martyrdom, elevate him to a place in history second to none other of ancient or modern times. His success in his great office, his hold upon the confidence and affections of his countrymen, we shall all say are only second to Washington's; we shall probably feel and think that they are not second even to his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandmother, born in County Tyrone, believed as a good Irishwoman that there were only three kinds of tea fit to drink, none of th...em storebought. The first quality was kept, sensibly enough, in China. The second picking was sent directly to Ireland. The third and lowest grade went, of course, to the benighted British. And all the tea used in our house came once a year, in one or two beautiful soldered tin boxes, from Dublin. Then only would we know it to be second to what the Dowager Empress of China was drinking, while the other Old Lady in Buckingham Palace sipped our dregs, as served her right. ...My grandmother died before tea bags. I am grateful. My mother never admitted their existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it must be obvious that in the agitation preceding the enactment of [protective] laws the zeal of the reformers would be secon...d to the zeal of the highly paid night-workers who are anxious to hold their trade against an invasion of skilled women. To this sort of interference with her working life the modern woman can have but one attitude: I am not a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kings were wont to honour philosophers; but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such purity in them that ...they would not seek when they are the second to be the first, and when they are third to be the second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ambition which leads me on is an anxious desire and a fixed determination to return to the people unimpaired the sacred trust ...they have confided to my charge; to heal the wounds of the Constitution and preserve it from further violation; to persuade my countrymen, so far as I may, that it is not in a splendid government supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratical establishments that they will find happiness or their liberties protection, but in a plain system, void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none, dispensing its blessings, like the dews of Heaven, unseen and unfelt save in the freshness and beauty they contribute to produce. It is such a government that the genius of the people requires; such an [sic] one only under which our states may remain for ages to come united, prosperous, and free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting al...l in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »