James Russell
James Russell
Left-handed relief pitcher known for an average fastball and good slider who made his MLB debut in 2010 for the Chicago Cubs.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1986
CityCincinnati, OH
men ideas long
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
mud soil
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
beautiful alive tradition
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
country sentiments our-country
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
wine vintage twenties
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
country ambition men
No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.
writing waiting right-time
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
home household
Many make the household but only one the home.
wise taken cutting
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
boston rooms newspapers
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
mean communism barbarism
Communism means barbarism.
america zion church
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
character break-through style
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.
fall thinking tree
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.