Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Love is a kind of military service.

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

We share half our genes with the banana.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.