#hen

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american spirit #emerson #energy #moral #optimism

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#choose #find #interesting #kinds #living

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#dog #moon #patriotism #religion #strangers

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment. ↗

— Marion Jones

#dedicated #get #had #i #moment

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. ↗

— Mother Jones

#alone #believe #committed #either #ever

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#gong #house #i #just #kid

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

#both #dad #go #go home #hockey

...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#experience

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#against #balkans #bands #both #brutality

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#been #complete #generations #hence #revolution