Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when... ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impracti...cal method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwis...e, you know, why not just come out and say it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It tosses up our losses, the torn seine, The shattered lobster pot, the broken oar... And the gear of foreign dead men. The sea has many voices, Many gods and many voices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; ...let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory..., inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection,--for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it agai...n and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had got a loaf of home-made bread, and musk and water melons for dessert. For this farmer, a clever and well-disposed man, cult...ivated a large patch of melons for the Hooksett and Concord markets. He hospitably entertained us the next day, exhibiting his hop-fields and kiln and melon-patch, warning us to step over the tight rope which surrounded the latter at a foot from the ground, while he pointed to a little bower at one corner, where it connected with the lock of a gun ranging with the line, and where, he informed us, he sometimes sat in pleasant nights to defend his premises against thieves. We stepped high over the line, and sympathized with our host's on the whole quite human, if not humane, interest in the success of his experiment. That night especially thieves were to be expected, from rumors in the atmosphere, and the priming was not wet. He was a Methodist man, who had his dwelling between the river and Uncannunuc Mountain; who there belonged, and stayed at home there, and by the encouragement of distant political organizations, and by his own tenacity, held a property in his melons, and continued to plant. We suggested melon seeds of new varieties and fruit of foreign flavor to be added to his stock. We had come away up here among the hills to learn the impartial and unbribable influence of Nature. Strawberries and melons grew as well in one man's garden as another's, and the sun lodges as kindly under his hillside,--when we had imagined that she inclined rather to some few earnest and faithful souls whom we know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
screenwriter Manchester was the residence of John Stark, a hero of two wars, and survivor of a third, and at his death the la...st but one of the American generals of the Revolution.... His monument stands upon the second bank of the river, about a mile and a half above the falls, and commands a prospect several miles up and down the Merrimack. It suggested how much more impressive in the landscape is the tomb of a hero than the dwellings of the inglorious living. Who is most dead,--a hero by whose monument you stand, or his descendants of whom you have never heard?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the de...epest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »