I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
When I came here in 1999, all one could hear was the sound of the guns as guns were booming all around. Today I am only hearing clapping of hands.
The best place to begin is always with gratitude.
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.