They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of money on that one.

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.