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The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.
Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.
The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.
If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.
One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides.
Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.
Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?