Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the...
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no...
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost when the...
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those...
Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking...
Hope the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and...
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and...
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world an...
I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness...
Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions...
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality...
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom...
I was never less alone than when by myself.
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years which rejected it.