Category: Thought

“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet, nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

“When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.”

“The Republican Congress should have been courageously advancing the Republican agenda and should not have been afraid of it. But they’re not playing to win; they’re playing not to lose.”

“God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don’t do that, they have no useful function.”

“It is up to the government to keep the government’s secrets.”

“The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?”

“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”