You have to get beyond blaming others. . . give up your excuses. . . stand responsible for what you do. . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.
The health you enjoy is largely your choice
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.
That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep. " Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.