Quotes from Lawrence Goldstone

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

Never confuse good luck with good planning

Greatness lies in persuading others to work for good.

WHAT SERVETUS HAD NOT taken into account was that it does not take very long for revolutions to turn reactionary.

The country may have been called the "United States," but its thirteen members lived under thirteen different constitutions, 9 with thirteen different ways to value money, thirteen different rules of commerce, and thirteen views on how all the problems of the nation should be solved.

Even in the debates, so repellent was slavery to northerners—and so embarrassing to southerners—that when the subject came up, the delegates often danced around it, employing euphemisms, such as "this unique species of property" or "this unhappy class," as stand-ins for the more disagreeable "slaves." Thus, the words "slave" and "slavery" never appeared in the original Constitution, nor would they until ninety-one years later when the thirteenth amendment abolished the practice

James Madison, for example, at one point observed that he "always conceived that the difference of interest in the U. States lay not between the large & small, but the N. & Southn States," and added that "it was pretty well understood that the institution of slavery & its consequences formed the line of discrimination.

That no one could know for sure in those early days what the delegates really had in mind—or even had said—did nothing to stop those in favor and those opposed from issuing definitive judgments as to the intent of the framers and its effect on the nation.

It is not uncommon for the cyclist, in the first flush of enthusiasm which quickly follows the unpleasantness of taming the steel steed, to remark, 'Wheeling is just like flying!' This is true in more ways than one.… Both modes of travel are riding upon the air, though in one case a small quantity of air is carried in a bag and in the other the air is unbagged.… To learn to wheel one must learn to balance; to learn to fly one must learn to balance.

Beard concluded that those who supported the Constitution did so because the new government would guarantee their wealth and the payment of debts owed to them, while those opposed wanted to stay with the more impotent and forgiving Articles of Confederation.

Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes.

Fear of black rebellion among planters was deep and long-standing. 7 It began in the first years that African slaves were brought ashore, but in 1739, an incident of unprecedented ferocity caught every slaveowner in its grip.

South Carolina went on what was described as a "war footing" and commenced the hunt for the remaining slaves. 9 Every white male in the colony was armed, and checkpoints were established at ferry crossings. Members of the local Chickasaw and Catawba tribes were offered a bounty for every black they caught.

Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.