The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us. ’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God. ’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights. . . is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.