Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

I don’t believe in astrology

I am tired of men hurting women and each other and themselves.

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.