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“No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.”
Source : James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books
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“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.”
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“The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.”
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“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”
Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
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“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”
Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
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“Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.”
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“Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts”
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“The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.”
