I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.
A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.
A new invention to poison people. . . is not a patentable invention.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
I was out in L. A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.
Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.
The lovers enter into a story together - "this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other" - and then at some point (in my experience, at least), the story splits, and they no longer share it. Then, you either change the story, or you break up. I've always broken up.
Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.