Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform.

At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I’ve been called worse.

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.