Oh, God, why do they do this to us? We only wanted to live, you and I. Why should they send us out to fight each other? If we thre...w away these rifles and these uniforms, you could be my brother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools th...e parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools.... I grow more and more opposed to [sectarian schools].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematic...s of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shams, or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters; science for symbol and illustration; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry. Was never stoicism so stern and exigent as this shall be. It shall send man home to his central solitude, shame these social, supplicating manners, and make him know that much of the time he must have himself to his friend. He shall expect no cooperation, he shall walk with no companion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only asylum Was the poorhouse, and those who could afford,... Rather than send their folks to such a place, Kept them at home; and it does seem more human. But it's not so: the place is the asylum. There they have every means proper to do with, And you aren't darkening other people's lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gentleman, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. I im...plore you, send him back to his father and brothers who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Levenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school... with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his... tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »