I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

Abundance is, but a matter of perception. For here in these lands of plenty, there are more natural treasures than one can behold.

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

To love is to be vulnerable.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.