That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Liars need to have good memories.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Wonders demonstrate the power of God.

...it is not enough to be freeof the whips, principalities and powers

The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

What we expect, that we find.

I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.

As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight