The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the op...inion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He's leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German touri...sts are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf's and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Regard your servant s prayer and his plea, O LORD my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you today; tha...t your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, My name shall be there, that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness--hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughte...r's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to c...reate in men this benevolent disposition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All we know Is that we are a little early, that... Today has that special, lapidary Todayness that the sunlight reproduces Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For universal love is as special an aspect as carnal love or any of the other kinds: all forms of mental and spiritual activity mu...st be practiced and encouraged equally if the whole affair is to prosper. There is no cutting corners where the life of the soul is concerned....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when... talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a snarky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the w...ord describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »