What are people for? –Wendell Berry
I do not view politicks as a scramble between eminent men; but as a science by which the lasting interest of the country may be advanced. –Calhoun
Citizens must fight to defend the law as if fighting to hold the city wall. –Heraclitus
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the word which the Lord of hosts has sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. –Zechariah, 7:12
Your parents inherited a dollar; they leave you a peso. –Bill Bonner
It is not to our credit to think that we began today and it’s not to our glory to think we end today . . . . You stick to your blood, son; there’s a fierceness in blood that can bind you up with a long community of life. –Stark Young
New England! Where people get together to change the world! –Vermont Public Radio as heard by Prof. Donald Livingston
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK). –Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
There comes a time in every man’s life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse. –Havilah Babcock
Mr. [Thaddeus] Stevens has no single quality of a statesman. . . . He is strictly a revolutionary leader: reckless, unsparing, vehement, vindictive, loud for the rights of conquerors, intolerant of opposition, and absolutely incapable of fine discrimination and generous judgment as a locomotive of singing. . . . He is no more fitted for the task of reconstruction which devolves upon Congress than a jovial blacksmith to repair a watch, or a butcher to take up hidden arteries and sundered veins in the very region of the heart. –Opinion of Republican news organ Harper’s Weekly, April 7, 1866
What might have been and what has been / Point to one end, which is always present. — T.S. Eliot
Confederate soldiers laid down their arms and accepted parole. Confederate officials were imprisoned. But the Confederate States of America never surrendered or ceased to exist de jure. –Clyde Wilson
