People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space
If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert. . . writes badly.
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.