It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.
Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.
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.
The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.