“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.” Lord Byron
history of this quote “The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and the executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.” by John Adams John Adams
history of this quote “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge
history of this quote “The guests are met, the feast is set: May’st hear the merry din?” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge
history of this quote “What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.” by Lord Byron Lord Byron
history of this quote “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy.” by John Adams John Adams
history of this quote “The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men… On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.” by John Adams John Adams
history of this quote “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right… and a desire to know-but besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded, and envied kind of knowledge. I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” by John Adams John Adams
