“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.”

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem’d polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there’s no need to fret about it. If it fails, you’ll know what to do next time.

I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

At times of crisis or distress, it’s poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people’s feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can’t.

I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.