I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
The history of a man is in his character.
Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept. So we'd have somebody standing guard at the door to keep all the computer science guys out. We had to guard our women at all times.