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

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.

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.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.