The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

The past can be changed by the future.