It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.