The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Martin [Luther King] wasn't one to buck forces too much.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.