The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others. . . . People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.
"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.