An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

When you dive into your past, remember to go back up quickly.

How you survive on earth is only known to you.

O Lord grant us the grace for sacred rest

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.