Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us. ’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God. ’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights. . . is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.
The most merciful thing in the world. . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of relationships.