Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.