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| We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we invented, which was human liberty. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. | | Safety | |
| We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove | | Uncategorized | |
| We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain | | Uncategorized | |
| We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that | | Approval | |
| We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. | | Uncategorized | |
| We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. | | Music | |
| We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us | | Uncategorized | |
| We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves | | Benevolence | |
| We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves | | Uncategorized | |
| We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books theoretically, at least. | | Uncategorized | |
| We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read | | Uncategorized | |
| We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain | | Uncategorized | |
| We have nine children now half boys and half girls. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining 10 millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket. And so, by these Providences of God -- and the phrase is the government's, not mine -- we are a World Power. | | Uncategorized | |
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