Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the ...levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated ti...me and again its lack of confidence in the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it does...n't go to my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little ...while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only asylum Was the poorhouse, and those who could afford,... Rather than send their folks to such a place, Kept them at home; and it does seem more human. But it's not so: the place is the asylum. There they have every means proper to do with, And you aren't darkening other people's lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are tireless folk, but slow and sad Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad... With none among them that ever sings....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hadn't an illusion in my handbag About the people being better there... Than those I left behind. I thought they weren't. I thought they couldn't be. And yet they were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »