We were mighty short of infielders in those days
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.
For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.