It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized. . . The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm. . . a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.
. . . it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.