I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.


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During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply d...
CHARLES A. BEARD
In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the deve...
CHARLES A. BEARD
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in th...
CHARLES A. BEARD
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches...
CHARLES A. BEARD
Where would we be without salt?
JAMES A. BEARD
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would d...
CHARLES A. BEARD
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mir...
CHARLES A. BEARD
Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convent...
CHARLES A. BEARD
...within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.
JO ANN BEARD
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts -- who...
MARY RITTER BEARD
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantas...
MARY RITTER BEARD
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves in the mir...
CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD
Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of pra...
CHARLES A. BEARD
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen ...
CHARLES A. BEARD
The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wi...
CHARLES A. BEARD
The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into t...
CHARLES A. BEARD
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and deli...
MARY RITTER BEARD
Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individua...
CHARLES A. BEARD
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
CHARLES A. BEARD
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
MARY RITTER BEARD
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantasti...
MARY RITTER BEARD
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen ...
CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only...
MARY RITTER BEARD
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses,...
MARY RITTER BEARD
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
MARY RITTER BEARD
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering.

I too...
HENRY N. BEARD
If you can try to nap where someone's sitting,
Although there is another empty chair,
Then...
HENRY N. BEARD
The Prologue to TERRITORY LOST

"Of cats' first disobedience, and the height
O...
HENRY N. BEARD
You can never know where I am or what I am,
But I am good company to you nonetheless,
And ...
HENRY N. BEARD
To a Vase

"How do I break thee? Let me count the ways.
I break thee if thou a...
HENRY N. BEARD
Ah, fish, there is no fare
Quite like a flounder! They surely will not miss
A piece or two...
HENRY N. BEARD
Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD
Behold the day-break!
I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face,
I st...
HENRY N. BEARD
The End of the Raven

"On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward sl...
HENRY N. BEARD
From CATS ARE KIND

"I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;
On and on he sped.
HENRY N. BEARD
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, 'Do I shed?' and, 'Do I shed?'
Time to turn back ...
HENRY N. BEARD
I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armcha...
HENRY N. BEARD
Let us roam then, you and I,
When the evening is splayed out across the sky
[...]
Pat...
HENRY N. BEARD