Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.
The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.
My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.