By acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.
All relations of power rest on one thing, a contract between the leader and the followers such that the followers believe it is in their interest to follow the leader. No man can compel another—except...
All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It was on the meaning of the Declara...
All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Within the coming decade alone, three signal amendments would be added to the Constitution: the Sixteenth, giving the national government the power to levy a progressive income tax, without which many...
With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, and...
While Abraham, gifted with physical agility and uncommon athletic prowess, had to make his mind, Teedie, privileged beyond measure with resources to develop his mind, had to make his body.
When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he refused to be provoked by petty grievances, to submit to jealousy, or to brood over perceived slights. Through the appalling...
When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.
What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, the drudgery of the law.
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
Tolstoy went on to observe, This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary his personality has become. Now, why was Lincoln so great t...
Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed.
They were stealin’ votes in east Texas, Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, we were stealin’ votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it. But Jesus wasn’t...
There is no one left, McClure exhorted his readers as he cast about for a remedy to America’s woes at the turn of the twentieth century, none but all of us.
The painful apprehension within the administration mirrored the fears experienced in hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the country.
The mossy marbles rest On lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
The majority of the great fortunes were won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.
The hand Wilson extended when the two men first met felt like a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper—irresponsive and lifeless.
The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown greater than the State . . . and that the naked issue of...