It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. |
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. |
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. |
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. |
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. |
Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. |
Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. |
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. |
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. |
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time... |
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. |
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. |
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. |
America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. |
The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who
would pervert it! |
Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. |
I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it. |
The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow. |
