So far we have been going firmly ahead, feeling the firm ground of prejudice glide away beneath our feet which is always rather ex...hilarating, but what next? You will be waiting for the bit where we bog down, the bit where we take it all back, and sure enough that's going to come but it will take time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sure enough, moving, the thunder became men, Ten thousand, men hewn and tumbling,... Mobs of ten thousand, clashing together, This way and that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be "dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being." Sure enough, ...a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would ...drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said ...the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "Mas long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are... not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked o...ff into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in fo...rcing whites and blacks together. But both classes should be fully provided for. I recognize fully the evil of rule by ignorance. I see enough of it under my own eyes. You are not so much worse off in this respect than New York, Chicago, and other cities having a large immigrant population. But the remedy is not, I am sure, to be found in the abandonment of the American principle that all must share in government. The whites of the South must do as we do, forget to drive and learn to lead the ignorant masses around them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »