My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,

Loyalty to a wrong person always paid darkness, Nothing else!

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

I'm just ready to keep going.

I don't like going on stage. Stages mean "nervous" for me.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.