Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded ho...pe, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defi...ned by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women. ...These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In asking for a voice in the government under which we live, have we been pursuing a shadow for fifty years? In seeking political ...power, are we abdicating that social throne where they tell us our influence is unbounded? No, no! The right of suffrage is no shadow, but a substantial entity that the citizen can seize and hold for his own protection and his country's welfare. A direct power over one's own person and property, an individual opinion to be counted, on all questions of public interest, are better than indirect influence, be that ever so far-reaching.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are we...ak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »