Elbridge Quotes

#1. When you said hold the ice ... "
"I thought you were near death over there," I answer, breathless. "That doesn't feel fatal."
"I was, but you are one hot chick when you pound on the right bag." He jerks me back against him hard and I yelp. Not in pain. No, definitely not pain.

K.A. Tucker

#2. What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

Elbridge Gerry

#3. Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

Elbridge Gerry

#4. No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

Elbridge Gerry

#5. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see ... .

Miguel Ruiz

#6. Life's opportunities are meant to be utilized and explored

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

Elbridge Gerry

#8. Daddy is jive talking
and showering the stripper
Mommy is sleepwalking
while changing baby's diaper

Casey Renee Kiser

#9. A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

Elbridge Gerry

#10. The Zenjirli inscriptions supply far more suggestive criteria, and show how cautious we must be in coming to conclusions respecting the unity of the Aramaic language. These inscriptions are in many ways more akin to Hebrew and Assyrian than to Aramaic.

John Courtenay James

#11. The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack.

Sylvia Plath

#12. I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

Elaine Stritch

#13. An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything.

Elbridge Bryant

#14. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Elbridge Gerry