You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me