Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
