The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!
I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat. , Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]
By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.
Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.