Samuel famous quotes

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
-- Samuel

#Lasts #Phases #Grows

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
-- Samuel

#Men #Iron #Pigs

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.
-- Samuel

#Patriot #Silent #Dangerous

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
-- Samuel

#Tyrants #Tools #Terrible

I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.
-- Samuel

#Mean #Rights #People

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.
-- Samuel

#Strong #Children #School

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.
-- Samuel

#Men #Law #Speak

I want you to put more life into your dying.
-- Samuel

#Dying #Want #I Want You

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.
-- Samuel

#Justice #Firsts #Debt

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.
-- Samuel

#Practice #Engagement #Architecture

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
-- Samuel

#Dark #Movie Love #Want

Despair young and never look back,
-- Samuel

#Despair #Looks #Young

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.
-- Samuel

#Addresses #Architecture #Social

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.
-- Samuel

#Appreciation #Order #People

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?
-- Samuel

#Giving #Promise #Honour

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.
-- Samuel

#Soul #Shelter #Rich

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.
-- Samuel

#Men #Age #Four

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.
-- Samuel

#Emotion

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.
-- Samuel

#Teacher #Leader #Architect

Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.
-- Samuel

#Hell #Let Me Go #Let Me