The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He rememb...ered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings:... But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is now well known that women are biologically somewhat less lateralized in brain function than men. This means simply that psyc...hological functions in women are not localized into one or the other hemisphere of the brain to the same degree as in men. Mental abilities in women are more spread over both hemispheres. Even by age six, for example, a boy can recognize objects in his left hand by feel alone better than in his right hand. In girls both hands are equal. This shows that haptic recognition (as it is called) has already been primarily localized in the right hemisphere in boys but not in girls. And it is common knowledge that elderly men with a stroke or hemorrhage in the left hemisphere are more speechless than elderly women with a similar diagnosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unali...enable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them... with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indu...lgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to b...e free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be ...a mere machine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is an ...act of force, and not of right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »