None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army |
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. |
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. |
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. |
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. |
Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man |
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence |
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus |
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. |
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. |
Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct |
On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. |
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. |
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. |
One insult pocketed soon produces another |