The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I'm doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that's something I really enjoy.
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism. '
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.