Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. . . Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.
Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with my friends? Have I revised the lessons I have been taught?