I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the... glory. I say to them "You are supreme: exercise your power." They say, "That's right: tell us what to do;" and I tell them. I say "Exercise your vote intelligently by voting for me." And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is dri...nk. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got i...nto the dumpling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares.... When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down..., she wants to be kissed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,... The night above the dingle starry,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every one finds by his own experience, as well as in history, that the era in which men cultivate the apple, and the amenities of ...the garden, is essentially different from that of the hunter and forest life, and neither can displace the other without loss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to the historian, they escaped as by a miracle all roving bands of Indians, and reached their homes in safety, with thei...r trophies, for which the General Court paid them fifty pounds. The family of Hannah Dustan all assembled alive once more, except the infant whose brains were dashed out against the apple tree, and there have been many who in later time have lived to say that they have eaten of the fruit of that apple tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »