“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.” WantLooksStillsBigsDarkRoomsAudienceMembersThrillMovie LoveDark Room Author:Samuel
“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.” TerribleToolsPressesTyrantsFree PressFretting Author:Samuel
“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.” PeopleKnowsMayMeanStatesKnow HowRightsCitizensAuthorityImportanceCongressProtectionDistinctionBelongingGood PeopleAmendmentsImpressedSovereignPersonal Rights Author:Samuel
“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.” ThinkingMenMindWellsMayChildrenDoneSchoolStrongInfluenceYouthDutyMoralityImportanceTownsOur ChildrenUniversityPursuitEngagedImpressedRemembrancePietyTransactions Author:Samuel
“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.” MenStatesLawSpeakBoundsCreatorLaws Of Nature Author:Samuel
“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.” FirstsJusticeCreatorDebtProtectionDuesPietyAcknowledgment Author:Samuel
“Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.” HeartBreakGraceWhatever It TakesBreak Your HeartWakes You Author:Mark Matousek
“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.” OpportunityPoliticsVicesCrueltyMotive Book:Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Scenes of Clerical Life