What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.

Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.