My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away; taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.
I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.