The feeling of reverence should itself be treated with reverence, although not at a sacrifice of truth, with which alone, in the end, reverence is compatible.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 3: Reason in Religion (1905).
Mind Your Business
Motto on obverse of the Fugio cent, designed by Benjamin Franklin, and minted in 1787.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington, in a letter to James Madison (March 2, 1488).
You guys can have it. Like, we’re ’ceding it to you people, OK? You social justice, lefty, Marxist, communist freaks: you can have California. Have it with all your diversity; and have it with all of your nonsense. And you will destroy it, but have it — but you can’t have what we want, too. Pick one. All right? So you can have it. I’m letting it go. I’m letting you go, Cali, and I ain’t coming back.
Dave Rubin, “DeSantis Calls BS on Blue State Mandates & Moving to Florida AMA | Direct Message,” signing off from The Rubin Report’s last public livestream from California. Mr. Rubin is moving lock, stock, and barrel to Florida. (Note: the apostrophe before “ceding” marks where we have redacted his spoken “con” — Dave obviously did not mean “conceding.”)
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
The character Nelly Dean, in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847).
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke, Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789).