There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

Turns out all it takes to bring enemies to peace is a bigger enemy.

We are here to make another world.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.