Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that. . . it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Courage is essential to leadership.
I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. " (Page 79. )
Things must be felt with the heart.