Samuel Quotes

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

Despair young and never look back,

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.