Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

If you possess the character that you have in your daily lives, nobody can't forcefully change your personality unless you embrace their influence.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.