Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon. ' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow. ' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve. ' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer. '
If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.
I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.
If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting. . . Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure. ” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.