Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.