Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.