Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
Someone has said, “A friend is a person who is willing to take me the way I am. ” Accepting this as one definition of the word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we find him.
Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
. . . Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live. . . . Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.
Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.
As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
[Ted] Cruz may have been hoping his reversal would fly under the radar.
I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.
If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.
Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.