The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

A man's house is his castle.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.