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

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

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.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Big or small, be ready to do your part when you dare to dream and you will be rewarded with success from the Universe.

To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected.

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better.