A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

That's the dating world. You just keep losing. Everyone does.

Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

I've never really been about looking good - I'm just bad at that stuff.

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.