Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
That’s what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act.
The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone’s problem, be aware that most people aren’t going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn’t come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.
I’m sure some of you are wondering whether my breasts are real. Let me just explain to you. This one is, this one isn’t.
I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding- in spite of distances or thoughts expressed- can make life a garden.