Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

Teaching is different today. Teachers don’t just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we’re ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.

I do not care what you think of me.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

To grow a philosopher's beard.

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.