Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Adam Sandler

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

Herbert Croly

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

A. J. Liebling

Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Jason Mraz

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friendswent to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Robert Frost

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Charles Monroe Schulz

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Charles Dickens

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert Humphrey