When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
The Supreme Court, once in existence, cannot be abolished, because its foundation is not in an act of the legislative department of the Government, but in the Constitution of the United States.
I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorfu...
I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.
Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.
