I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.
Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!
War is sweet to those who never tried it.
I always make a wish at 11:11, even if its something cheesy.
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.