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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
