Michael Strawser

“This world is not conclusion.
A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound”
― Emily Dickinson

“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
― Mark Twain

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook