I don't think the ladies in town accepted the fact that I worked. That was the point at which I said to myself, well, you're alway...s going to be out of step and you might as well face it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My administration is pledged to follow the policies of Mr. Roosevelt in this regard, and while that pledge does not involve me in ...any obligation to carry them out unless I have Congressional authority to do so, it does require that I take every step and exert every legislative influence upon Congress to enact the legislation which shall best subserve the purposes indicated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Far up in the country,--for we would be faithful to our experience,--in Thornton, perhaps, we met a soldier lad in the woods, goin...g to muster in full regimentals, and holding the middle of the road; deep in the forest, with shouldered musket and military step, and thoughts of war and glory all to himself. It was a sore trial to the youth, tougher than many a battle, to get by us creditably and with soldier-like bearing. Poor man! He actually shivered like a reed in his thin military pants, and by the time we had got up with him, all the sternness that becomes the soldier had forsaken his face, and he skulked past as if he were driving his father's sheep under a sword-proof helmet. It was too much for him to carry any extra armor then, who could not easily dispose of his natural arms. And for his legs, they were like heavy artillery in boggy places; better to cut the traces and forsake them. His greaves chafed and wrestled one with another for want of other foes. But he did get by and get off with all his munitions, and lived to fight another day; and I do not record this as casting any suspicion on his honor and real bravery in the field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We sank a foot deep in water and mud at every step, and sometimes up to our knees, and the trail was almost obliterated, being no ...more than that a musquash leaves in similar places, where he parts the floating sedge. In fact, it probably was a musquash trail in some places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is... emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and the ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were ...young, these men saved the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in ...them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband-...-it creeps up insidiously ... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realises that it is gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »