We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
Category Archive: January 18
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.