Dad and I had breakfast this morning. We had a look at each other's speeches. He would have used mine, but he's not a lesbian. I w...ould have used his, but I'm not a Republican.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place ...where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than u...pon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair ...part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My desire is that your office [the New York Customhouse] shall be conducted on strictly business principles.... In making appointm...ents and removals of subordinates, you should be perfectly independent of mere influence. Neither my recommendation, nor that of the Secretary of the Treasury, nor the recommendation of any Member of Congress, or other influential person, should be specially regarded. Let appointments and removals be made ... by fixed rules.... Let no man be put out merely because he is a friend of the late collector [Chester A. Arthur], and no man be put in merely because he is our friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was duped ... by the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then suffic...iently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. Th...ey no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labour, and we will give you work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »