False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
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.
Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.
I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.