I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
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.
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion. " To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it. "
If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.