He was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could ...get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... every sapient prophecy with regard to America has been disproved. We were forewarned that she was too free, and her liberty ha...s proved her security; too peaceable, and she has been found sufficient for her defence; too large, and her size has ensured her union. The bonds of union, indeed, are more numerous and intimate than can be easily conceived by foreigners. A people who have bled together for liberty, who equally appreciate and equally enjoy that liberty which their own blood or that of their fathers has purchased, who feel, too, that the liberty which they love has found her last asylum on their shores--such a people are bound together by ties of amity and citizenship far beyond what is usual in national communities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that m...akes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Renunciation: that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ours...elves and others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of ...the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages wh...ich are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it w...as a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jesus would recommend you to pass the first day of the week rather otherwise than you pass it now, and to seek some other mode of ...bettering the morals of the community than by constraining each other to look grave on a Sunday, and to consider yourselves more virtuous in proportion to the idleness in which you pass one day in seven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »