The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
War. . . is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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.
These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.
I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.