The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.
All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex.
I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.
The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?