Alive Quote by Thomas Paine

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable…

— Robert Emmet

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

— Ovid

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This…

— Isaac D'Israeli

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

— Thomas Sowell

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

— Plutarch

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

— Thomas Sherlock

“The unwholesome-looking little moral agent of destruction exulted silently in the possession of personal prestige, keeping in check this man armed with the defensive…

— Joseph Conrad

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

— John Marshall

“Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for a decent…

— Giles Tremlett

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect…

— Kevin Gutzman