Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

All wealth is the product of labor.

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.