We really should get some X-rays,” the EMT said. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT.
They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.
When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.
The future projects light, the past only clouds
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.