Federal government Quote by Jonathan D. Greenberg

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects…

— Seneca the Younger

“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps…

— J. Christopher Herold

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly…

— Marisha Pessl

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any…

— Steven Magee

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city…

— Nina Turner

Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood…

— Scott Snyder

“In short, a strong royal advisor class insists on stopping and thinking. And it tries, I think with growing success in modern times, to…

— Elaine N. Aron

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal…

— George Augustus Henry Sala