"Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children's infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or... getting married!" That's total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art "scientific" parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can only be one Commander-in-Chief. In these times, crises cannot be managed and wars cannot be waged by committee. To the e...ars of the world, the President speaks for the nation. While he is of course ultimately accountable to Congress, the courts, and the people, he and his emissaries must not be handicapped in advance in their relations with foreign governments as has sometimes happened in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great battleground for the defence and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe ... the lands of the... rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor in...spires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the "healing-power" gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and... most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hatin...g hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I writ...e. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »