We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.
If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.
A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.
A new invention to poison people. . . is not a patentable invention.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.
We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.