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.
I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
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.
