Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.

I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.

Abandon your resentments, they keep you small.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

I don't know if fame will come.

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.

Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.