Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short- term objects... of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld; And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves... And pirates of the universe, shut out Daily to a more thin and outward rind, Turn pale and starve. Therefore, to our sick eyes, The stunted trees look sick, the summer short, Clouds shade the sun, which will not tan our hay, And nothing thrives to reach its natural term;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinner...s; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must watch the infant in his mother's arms; we must see the first images which the external world casts upon the dark mirror of... his mind, the first occurrences which he witnesses; we must hear the first words which awaken the sleeping powers of thought, and stand by his earliest efforts,--if we would understand the prejudices, the habits, and the passions which will rule his life. The entire man is, so to speak, to be seen in the cradle of the child. The growth of nations presents something analogous to this; they all bear some marks of their origin. The circumstances which accompanied their birth and contributed to their development affect the whole term of their being. If we were able to go back to the elements of states, and to examine the oldest monuments of their history, I doubt not that we should discover in them the primal cause of the prejudices, the habits, the ruling passions, and, in short, of all that constitutes what is called the national character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where... they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am heartily tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil. I wish it was at an end.... We are both physically very hea...lthy.... Our tempers are cheerful. We are social and popular. But it is one of our greatest comforts that the pledge not to take a second term relieves us from considering it. That was a lucky thing. It is a reform--or rather a precedent for a reform, which will be valuable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case a...s in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »