We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.
The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that's what I do: I do not use auto-tune!
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.