The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; ...and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife's nightgown. ...He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. "Yes," she answered, "the figure of a fool."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright good... feeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if he...r mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should try to understand every thing you see and hear; to act and judge for yourselves; to remember you each have a soul of yo...ur own to account for; M a mind of your own to improve. When you once get these ideas fixed, and learn to act upon them, no man or set of men, no laws, customs, or combinations of them can seriously oppress you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They plough, harrow, reap, dig, make hay, rake, bind grain, thresh, chop wood, milk, churn, do anything that is hard work, physica...l labor, and who says anything against it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experi...ence must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know ...you are somebody?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »