If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.
The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.
The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to the supermarket or the butcher or wherever and tell people, 'My grandson is going to be the next Calvin Klein.'
[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.
