The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.
Can accidentally eating halal food make you Muslim? Yes, the same way drinking a cosmo can make you gay.
If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist.
You have a firm grasp of the obvious.
I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.
Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once.
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
To me, the acceptable level of fecal matter is. . . zero.
I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that politely. We did far worse things than you can possibly dream of, but we did it with that certainly gentlemanly swagger. . . Dreadfully sorry, but we seem to have crushed your entire continent's infrastructure. Allow me to make it up to you by offering you a job 4,000 miles away. No, no, I insist.
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.