One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a commu...nity of thought, a rivalry of aim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are th...erefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We gave 'em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave 'em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to p...oison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don't you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity-...-the law of nature and of nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which ...was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And dissolve into our judgement all their codes.... Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs; They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;... They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives; On several occasions, too, they saved each other's lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial inv...ention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »