The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.