Richard Mentor Johnson Quotes
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
Jack Gleeson
A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
Wallace Stevens
Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
Carrie Underwood
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
Adam Smith
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
Albert Einstein
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
Kathryn Harrison
Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.
Brian McGinn
With our free agents, we think we have the best place for them.
Joe Gibbs
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
William Shakespeare
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.
William Barclay
God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
Francis Chan
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson
