Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Who has words at the right moment?

While we live, let us live.

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.