I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
I believed that, if I put a chocolate on the market that was better than anyone else was making, or was likely to make, and keep it absolutely uniform in quality, the time would come when the public would appreciate it and buy it.
I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.
Invest in what you know.
We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.