So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for--thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for th...e union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies ...is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of w...ork except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental... in establishing the colonies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of indepen...dence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mothercountry. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Minerva House ... was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen ...inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believ...e that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the f...irst the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind--men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh--who founded the English colonies in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »