Back in the 1950s and 1960s, everybody had a hobby. It takes a lot of time. I've been teaching 4-H kids how to build planes for 30 years. |
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. |
Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages |
Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws |
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence |
But I fear that in every assembly members will obtain an influence by noise rather than sense, by meanness rather than greatness, and by ignorance and not learning, by contracted hearts and not large souls. There is one thing, � that must be attempted and most sacredly observed, or we are all undone. There must be decency and respect and veneration introduced for persons of every rank, or we are undone. In a popular government, this is our only way. |
But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes |
Call it then, ... the Age of Paine. |
Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness |
Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. |
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. |
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? |
Duncan's counsel simply cannot be prepared to try three homicide cases in such a short period of time. |
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. |
Everyone is stable at this time. If their condition appears to weaken, they will be brought to the hospital and either fed intravenously or nose fed, |