
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
"A Saxon Song" (1923)
Variant: A man and his loves make a man and his life.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
“The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
Address to the court in People v. Lloyd (1920)
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.”
12 December 2010
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 18.
1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Context: Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the land from which his forefathers came and without regard to the creed which he professes. If the United States proves false to these principles of civil and religious liberty, it will have inflicted the greatest blow on the system of free popular government that has ever been inflicted. Here we have had a virgin continent on which to try the experiment of making out of divers race stocks a new nation and of treating all the citizens of that nation in such a fashion as to preserve them equality of opportunity in industrial, civil, and political life. Our duty is to secure each man against any injustice by his fellows.
“A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”
Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.
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The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning