Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.
At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability.
It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.