It is my conviction that this is a matter for settlement by the States, and not by the Federal Government, and, therefore, that being my personal conviction, and it being obvious that there is no ground on your part for discouragement in the progress you are making, and my passion being local self-government and the determination by the great communities into which this nation is organized of their own policy and life, I can only say that since you turned away from me as a leader of a Party and asked me my position as a man, I 61 am obliged to state it very frankly, and I believe that in stating it I am probably in agreement with those who framed the platform to which allusion has been made.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

It may be objected, that this is not general, but only applies to those trying to live the holy life.
— from The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding

The motive for the building of the tower is not given very clearly in the Bible and, in the form in which it is given, is hardly calculated to impress the story on a child's mind.
— from A Manual for Teaching Biblical History by Eugene Kohn

Mr. Darwin does not say that organic beings have no tendency to vary at all, but only that there is no good evidence that they have a tendency to progressive development, which, I take it, means, to see an ideal a long way off, and very different to their present selves, which ideal they think will suit them, and towards which they accordingly make.
— from Life and Habit by Samuel Butler

The stability of the great planets is thus assured; but it is to be observed that there is no guarantee of stability for comets.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

it must be observed, that there is no general body that can legislate on this subject; no parliament of nations that can discuss and alter the law already defined.
— from The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping by H. Byerley (Henry Byerley) Thomson