All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
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.
There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still will always be in the hearts of the writers of my generation and the generations before and hopefully the generations after.
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.