There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public. '
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.
I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.
I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled. . . if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.
It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable