The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

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 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 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.

A great mission by a great woman.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.