This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.
The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, "Thy will be done."
Discipline | Education |
In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Of course, when all is said, it is not learning but the spirit of service that will give a college place in the public annals of the nation.
Education | Intelligence | Man | Organic |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The old theory of the sovereignty of the States, which used so to engage our passions, has lost its vitality. The war between the States established at least this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the final judge of its own powers... We are impatient of state legislatures because they seem to us less representative of the thoughtful opinion of the country than Congress is. We know that our legislatures do not think alike, but we are not sure that our people do not think alike...
Education | Individual | Life | Life | Object | Right | World |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us; and it can consist of all of us only as our spirits are banded together in a common enterprise. That common enterprise is the enterprise of liberty and justice and right. And, therefore, I, for my part, have a great enthusiasm for rendering American spiritually efficient; and that conception lies at the basis of what seems very far removed from it, namely, the plans that have been proposed for the military efficiency of this nation.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.
Education | Injustice | Injustice | Progress | Unhappiness | World |
Timothy Dwight, fully Timothy Dwight IV
What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of Him, from whom all things derive their wisdom!
Education | Existence | Government | Industry | Learning | Man | Marriage | Refinement | World | Government |
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.