“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
