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.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

I was once in darkness, but now, the light of God has shone upon me.

I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good and sometimes you're like, "That one was just sorta there."

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration