Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

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.

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.