We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.
When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
Free food!" mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. "No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything. " "Since when is it free?" Jonah demanded. "If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!