Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.
For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.
Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.