You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
How many things would be different in everyone’s surroundings if we hadn’t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don’t know it.
I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!