My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
What is a logical mind?. . . It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.
The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.