Society and the World

The compact which exists between the North and the South is ‘a covenant with death and an agreement with hell’.

I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

From the lone shieling of the misty island

Eppur si muove.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe … This book is written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help … one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

We are all Adam’s children but silk makes the difference.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

The land was ours before we were the land’s.

The land was ours before we were the land’s.

I’d like to get away from earth awhile

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Technology … the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

All that matters is love and work.

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’