#vere

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. ↗

— William Whipple

#court #doubt #i #i wonder #law

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

#day #deep #degrees #doors #fourteen

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#creating #god #his #i #man

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#creating #god #his #i #i think

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#choice #choose #day #death #faculty

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. ↗

— George Will

#between #born #end #freedom #government

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. ↗

— Bill Williams

#john #john paul #leaders #man #most

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#i #i do #just #revered #should

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#benjamin franklin #discovered #electricity #franklin #invented