Lice have been with us and evolving with us for as long as we have existed.
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world. . . History is the true demonstration of Religion.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Socialism means slavery.
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.
Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.