Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Being honest about where you come from and what your story is is the only way to connect to other people, to really connect with them.

The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

Being a geek is extremely liberating

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.