The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capita...l. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.--How is this?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South and the other sections of the country. My chief ...purpose is not to affect a change in the electoral vote of the Southern States. That is a secondary consideration. What I look forward to is an increase in the tolerance of political views of all kinds and their advocacy throughout the South, and the existence of a remarkable political opposition in every State, and even more than this, to an increased feeling on the part of all the people of the South that this Government is their Government, and that its officers in their States are their officers. The consideration of this question can not, however, be complete without full reference to the Negro race, its progress, and its present condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil...ds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words a...ppear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why--but the editorialists forget it--terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I do not think it possible that anyone born an Aristotelian can become a Platoni...st; and I am sure that no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian. They are two classes of man, beside which it is next to impossible to conceive a third. The one considers reason a quality or attribute; the other considers it a power.... Aristotle was, and still is, the sovereign lord of the understanding--the faculty judging by the senses. He was a conceptualist, and never could raise himself into that higher state, which was natural to Plato, and has been so to others, in which the understanding is distinctly contemplated, and, as it were, looked down upon from the throne of actual ideas, or living, inborn, essential truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made ...it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the la...tter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment,... That this huge stage presenteth naught but shows Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory: Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight. Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,... And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »